r/AskEurope • u/Silver_Artichoke_456 • Feb 26 '25

Culture What's your country's worst kept secret?

In Belgium for instance, everyone knows there are nuclear bombs at the Kleine Brogel airbase, but it's still officially a secret.

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u/kakao_w_proszku Poland Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25

CIA black site in Stare Kiejkuty base) in northeastern Poland. Used to detain and torture Taliban members during the „War on Terror” era in mid 2000s. For a long time its existance was denied by the Polish government, but eventually it was confirmed real. Some people are speculated to have „spontanousely” suicided for not keeping their trap shut about it, most notably the former agrarian party leader Andrzej Lepper