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Monday, 6 June 2011

SOVIET SWINDON

In the days of Thamesdown Council many thought the Soviets had invaded now maybe we only wish they had.
  
This map of Swindon was made from an original 1950s OS map, updated by aerial photography and agents in the UK.  A common site in the 1970s and 80s was the spies sipping vodka on the Town Hall steps reciting the works of Lenin. 

The invasion did not happen but whatever the downside of regime change it might have seemed less painful if you consider the really nice stamps that would have dropped through your door for unpaid library fines and Party news.


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