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F. Bellat

Editions B2, Heritage Collection, 2018

CCCP '67. Cold War Monument

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The Trojan horse still exists. A regime adept at manipulating populations, the USSR used every international event to exert greater influence on public perception. Thirty years after the 1937 Paris International Exposition—where the Soviet Pavilion faced that of the Reich—in 1967, Leonid Brezhnev, at the height of the eponymous war and against a backdrop of acute espionage, faced Lyndon Johnson at Expo 67 in Montreal. Facing Buckminster Fuller's American Pavilion, the Soviet pavilion offered a stark contrast. Designed by Mikhail Posokhine, the Kremlin's architectural power behind the throne, the proletarian and collective farm hall displayed its obvious technical and economic marvels…
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