And here is the entire brochure:
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
1939 World's Fair: USSR Exhibit Brochure
This was an interesting brochure to read. Did you know the exhibition in the USSR Pavilion included the life-size copy of the interior of Mayakovskaya station of the Moscow Metro. Designer of the station, Alexey Dushkin, was awarded Grand Prize of the 1939 New York World's Fair. Here is a photo from the exhibit:
Interesting from a propaganda angle, knowing that Uncle Joe Stalin had put several million of his people in the ground by this time.
ReplyDeleteSuch a wonderful idea, yet so very naive and counter to human nature.
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