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 ...

Drawing on graph paper with blue grid background and a black outline of the Soviet Union at lower right with rectilinear border added in graphite. Above, four additional representations of the Soviet ...

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).

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

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 ...

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.