The commies were ready to take over Central Park. A trove of secret, highly-detailed Soviet maps from the early 1980s shows street level views of New York, Washington, D.C., and other major cities … ...

South Ferry, Liberty Island, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, and Jersey City on a Soviet-era map dating back to 1982. Image via Wired With its final days almost 25 years passed (though historians ...

A Soviet map of San Diego from 1980 (top) shows the buildings at the U.S. Naval Training Center and Marine Corps Recruiting Depot in more detail than does the USGS map published in 1979 (bottom).

This map was part of a massive Cold War effort by the Soviets. Over five decades — beginning with World War II until the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 — it produced more than a million ...

This map shows where Soviet citizens, who were required to have a detailed itinerary approved before obtaining a visa, could and could not go during their time in the United States.

New maps, prepared by the Soviet Union, ... The Soviets mapped out 103 major UK towns and cities, forming part of the most comprehensive global survey ever attempted.

Political ideology doesn’t enter into it.The only reason such strategies seldom originate in the Soviet Union is that the Soviet approach to travel tends to place […] Skip to content All Sections ...

The incredible maps – including this one of Newcastle – were produced over a 40-year period (Picture: The Red Atlas How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World) ...

Fleet, maps curator at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, said military maps became available in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia after the fall of the Soviet Union. “The Russian ...