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 … ...

Even so, the Soviet maps are strangely attractive and very well made, even by modern standards. “I continue to be in awe of the people who did this,” Davies says. 2:21.

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 ...

The Soviet mapmakers who created upwards of 1.1 million maps of the world, sometimes in street-level detail, held a different view. Wired recently published a collection of the found maps dating ...

These Soviet Maps of America Are Incredibly Detailed At the height of the Cold War, the USSR had amazing hand-drawn maps of the USA, including our military installations. By John Wenz Published ...

Soviet subs have the United States surrounded, and ICBM missiles are within striking distance of New York, Washington, and Los Angeles. Cuban and Nicaraguan forces appear to be on alert.

The falsification of Soviet maps, Yashchenko told Izvestia, began in the late 1930s when the map-making administration was put under control of the security police, then known as the NKVD.

A new walking map highlights the endangered structures built for a socialist utopia in the 1920s. A new walking map of Moscow highlights the city’s early Soviet architecture.

President Trump, History Buff, Doesn't Need Your Map of the Soviet Union. He knows all about it! By Jack Holmes Published: May 25, 2017 5:23 PM EDT. Getty Images.