... this is a great documentary! All of the PBS 'American Experience' programs are excellent! It is an accurate and well crafted look which brings history alive and is a revealing snapshot of life in America during the late 1950's. Nikita Khrushchev visits the United States in 1959! He kisses babies, lectures and threatens and wants to, but can't, go to Disneyland!
I cruise the Internet a lot looking for, amongst other things, Cold War material to put on this Blog. Here is a series of photos from a interesting site I stumbled upon By Simon Raffeiner 'One Man - One Map' .
This is a 'Spare Long-Range Command Bunker of the Soviet Air Forces from 1951 to 1995'
It is located beneath the streets of Moscow. It was sold in auction to a private company that now operates it as a museum. I urge you to go to the site LINK to read complete descriptions of these wonderful photos.
Gotta love that carpet! Visible are lots and lots of plate and screw shaft pinions used to secure reinforced panels to underground rock. I am thinking of the renovations done to NORAD headquarters inside of Cheyenne Mountain.
Be sure to stop by the mannequin to have your papers checked Comrade! He looks like he was recruited from an upscale Woolworth's. Unlike many the disheveled dummies I have seen at other museums.
I certainly hope the electrician who produced this work of art was praised. Not sent to Siberia for wasting precious building materials!
all images - Right Click - Open in New Window or Tab = super size!
