Eastern Europe did not have as many hotels under Communist rule as they do today, but back then the hotels were huge, grand in their brutalist way, and dominated the market. The government owned them, so they simplified...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/04/12/The-Weird-Wacky-Wonderworld-Of-Communist-Era-Hotels/Russia is constantly in the news these days, and p... ...agree on whether Putin's trying to bring back the Iron Curtain or whether he's coming around to the idea of bein...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/02/19/An-Animated-History-Of-Russia/The Soviet era seems like the bleakest and most de... ...lor returning to the cold, sterile country as the Iron Curtain fell, but even before the fall he'd spent decades...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/05/24/Soviet-And-Post-Soviet-Life-As-Seen-Through-The-Lens-Of-Sergey-Chilikov/
