This blog post at Attic #42 hits several of my sweet spots: telephone history, KGB surveillance, a plea for open-source technology, and a gripe about PDFs.
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This blog post at Attic #42 hits several of my sweet spots: telephone history, KGB surveillance, a plea for open-source technology, and a gripe about PDFs.
P.D. Smith on the USSR’s (still operational?!?) doomsday device.
Sergei Larenkov takes WWII-era photos of Russia, returns to where the photos were taken, matches up the shot and–oh, just click on the link. (Now, in English!)
Our man Jess Nevins with some cool snippets from Frank Miller’s Folklore for Stalin: Russian Folklore and Pseudofolklore of the Stalin Era.
Emo and goth to be made illegal in Russia? Don’t they know if we outlaw emo, only outlaws will be emo?