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Soviet History

The interior of this control tower was a mimic of an aircraft carrier ops room.

Crail, Scotland

Crail Airfield

Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.

In museums such as these, people saw various religious icons, statues, and paintings, alongside images depicting scientists like Copernicus being persecuted by priests.

How the USSR Turned Houses of Worship Into Museums of Atheism

In these Soviet churches, religion was banned.

Natasha Frost May 7, 2018

Isle of Tears

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

The remains of a thermal spa in Georgia, featuring rings of individual tubs.

A Photographer’s Journey Through the Former Spas of Soviet Georgia

Remnants of communist leisure in the shadow of war.

Anika Burgess April 30, 2018

Gematogen

A bloody good candy bar.

Permanently Closed

Ticket to USSR.

Ticket to the USSR

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

Sputnik wind-up shaver packaging, manufactured by the Leningrad Patefon Factory, 1968.

The Overlooked Wonders of Soviet-Era Industrial Design

Space-themed vacuum cleaners, and more.

Anika Burgess April 13, 2018

Morkovcha

The Soviet-Korean carrot salad is a sweet-and-sour testament to a diaspora's resilience.

<em>Leningrad</em>, 1979.

30,000 Hidden Images Reveal the World of a Soviet-Era Photographer

The secret trove of film and negatives, stashed in a Russian attic.

Anika Burgess April 2, 2018

The Gabriadze Puppet Theater

Tbilisi, Georgia

Rezo Gabriadze Puppet Theater

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

North Pier.

Liepāja, Latvia

Karosta North Pier

The mile-long pier stretches from a ruined fortress out into the Baltic.

Exploring a building inside the abandoned base.

Veszprém, Hungary

Soviet Ghost Town

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Diving along the main building.

Diving Into Estonia's Abandoned Underwater Prison

A former Soviet labor camp is now partially flooded, like an island in the middle of a lake.

Anika Burgess March 7, 2018

Wangenheim wrote his final letter on September 19, 1937.

The Poignant Gulag Art by Stalin's Doomed Meteorologist

Imprisoned for "false weather forecasts," Alexey Wangenheim sent sketches to the family he'd never see again.

Claire Selvin February 26, 2018

Slavín.

Bratislava, Slovakia

Slavín

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

Manchester's Engels Statue.

Manchester, England

Soviet Engels Statue

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

ALZHIR

Malinovka, Kazakhstan

ALZHIR

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

Pepsi was the first "capitalist" product sold in the Soviet Union.

When the Soviet Union Paid Pepsi in Warships

The company had a long, strange relationship with the U.S.S.R.

Anne Ewbank January 12, 2018