The Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain in photos

“Soviet railways. Travel by Soviet railway carriages" advertising poster in German, 1960

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Never built so not a photo, but what a shame. The Palace of the Soviets was such a cool idea.

As an aside, good channel here with micro bites of the Cold War and lots of focus on the Soviet Union

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Peoples palace Bucharest

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Remember when the Top Gear lads raced through the tunnels underneath

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Compassionate Educational Institutions.

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Yeah underneath it , class , I spent over 12 years going over n back, Bucharest isn’t great tbh, Transylvania is welcoming and safe, up in the east it’s still dodgy and hanging onto its socialist past( Iasi main city)
Only one top gear Clarkson and o​:ok_hand::ok_hand::+1:

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T34?

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The tank that saved the world

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That’s the AKMS version if I’m not mistaken, no I’m mistaken after another sconce, local AK factory in Brasov Transylvania was down as a cycle manufacturing outlet​:joy::joy:some cycle factory

Correct, a type 2

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