‘Unlike any city we’ve ever seen’: New images of Stalin-era
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‘Unlike any city we’ve ever seen’: New images of Stalin-era Moscow released from US ‘spy’ archive
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More uncensored photos and videos from the archive of Major Martin Manhoff, a US embassy official in the USSR who was expelled for spying, have been released, providing a look at Moscow from an era when the Iron Curtain was at its most impenetrable.
For the first time, the released artifacts, which were discovered in a Seattle attic by historian Douglas Smith decades after Manhoff’s death, include not just images, but the forthright first-hand observations of the diplomat’s wife, Jan.
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