Photos taken by major Martin Mungofa.
Spy is their and scout — our. It is unknown for certain what role in world history played an employee of the U.S. Embassy in the USSR, assistant military attache, major Martin Manhoff.He worked in the Embassy in Moscow from 1952 to 1954, after which he was expelled due to allegations of espionage.
For two years in the Soviet Union, at the Embassy, located at that time right at the red square in the hotel “national”, Manhoff shot thousands of color slides, dozens of reels of 16mm film.
Surprisingly, in the United States “unique” pictures of major was useless. It was not until recently, as a writer from the USA (the author of five books on the history of Russia, the analyst of “Radio Liberty”), Douglas Smith dug the archives Mangope at his home, and not engaged in digitization of a giant archive. Some of the photos he published in Facebook.
Here I present only some snapshots showing life on the roads of the USSR in those years. Namely, 65 years ago…
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