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Russia glosses over dark Soviet past in reinvented museum

In a Moscow museum that once housed evidence of Stalin-era repression, serene family scenes flickered on a screen as a narrator hailed the tranquility of pre-World War II life in the Soviet Union. On ...

Russia glosses over Stalin-era repression in reinvented museum

The 'Museum of Memory', which has elbowed out the Gulag History Museum, is set up to commemorate the 'genocide of the Soviet ...
Autoweek

Possibly the Greatest Museum of Soviet Empire Cars in the World

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks, and ...
Los Angeles Times

Soviet dissidents bypassed state censorship through art. This L.A. museum wants to show you how

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred At the Wende Museum, weekly “Samizdat Sundays” ...
CNET

Moscow museum resurrects Soviet arcade games

Secret military factories across the Soviet Union churned out the arcade games starting in the late 1970s, but they were discarded in favor of shinier Western imports after the collapse of communism ...
Council on Foreign Relations

Major Richard S. Heyser’s U-2 Mission Discovers Soviet Missiles in Cuba

A U.S. Air Force reconnaissance flight photographed evidence that the Soviet Union was installing nuclear-armed ballistic ...
Stars and Stripes

Millions of glass beads turn Cold War-era Soviet fighter into art at the Museum of Flight

SEATTLE — A steel gray fuselage with a bright red star painted on the side tail was about as ornate as the Soviets got when painting their MiG-21 fighter jets. But in Seattle, a surplus variant of the ...
Reuters

Russians recall bygone era with Soviet game museum

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Forgotten and broken down Soviet-era arcade games are being restored for Moscow's newest museum, just opened by volunteers nostalgic for childhood days spent playing games like ...
VICE

The Toxic Uzbek Town and Its Museum of Banned Soviet Art

“Chaikhana with the Portrait of Lenin” by Alexander Volkov, one of the banned pieces of Soviet art now housed in the State Art Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan Making our way out of Uzbekistan ...
KOB

Soviet missile to be transported to Nuclear Museum in ABQ

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque will receive a Soviet missile this Saturday morning. The demilitarized V-750 Dvina missile will be transported on ...
Reuters

FEATURE-Grisly Afghan museum honours anti-Soviet jihad

* Grisly dioramas show horrors of 1979-89 war * Anti-Soviet battles were followed by Afghan civil war By Golnar Motevalli HERAT, Afghanistan, April 26 (Reuters) - The bloodied corpses of Soviet ...