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The Symphony of Sirens plus Soviet Design

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The History of Soviet Radios

The Soviet system produced a lot of strange stuff, but sometimes the Soviets did better than the original. Take the unbelievably cool magazine, Krugazor. It was supposedly based on something Khrushchev saw while in the United States. The main thing that unites the designs in Made in Russia is that they're often the only designs.

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