Category: Russia
Class divisions in a classless society become immediately apparent. Ranking bureaucrats, research scientists, and military are eligible for the best of everything dachas (country vacation homes), vacations, travel, clothing, …
Nearly all visitors to the Soviet Union go to Moscow (Moskva), the heart of the government and a city with about the same population as New York City. Moscow …
Compared to Europe the Soviet Union has few major highways. Cars can be rented and driven around those parts of the country prescribed by Intourist. Travel by rental car …
In 1982 only about 38,000 Americans visited the Soviet Union, down from a peak of 57,000 in 1959. One reason: the American is viewed with unalloyed suspicion, watched, segregated …
