The commies were ready to take over Central Park. A trove of secret, highly-detailed Soviet maps from the early 1980s shows street level views of New York, Washington, D.C., and other major cities — ...

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During the Cold War, the Soviet military mapped the entire world. This secret program was one of the most ambitious mapping efforts ever undertaken, and it produced thousands—perhaps even millions—of ...

This 1976 map of Seattle is not the kind you would have bought at a gas station. No, this is a secret map put together by the Military Topographic Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Army.

Picture a city where nearly 100,000 people live, work, raise families, and grow old. Now imagine that for almost half a century, this place simply didn't exist. Not on any map, not in any census, not ...