The Nationalities of the Soviet Union Salute the Heroic Cosmonauts

[fivemack]

Part of the enormous mural on the roof of the State History Museum (formerly Lenin Museum), Bishkek (formerly Frunze), Kyrgyzstan (formerly Kyrgyz SSR)

There was also a really very striking mural of Mother Russia (wielding a sword with the gold star on the pommel) defeating a Nazi warrior in an iron-horned helmet riding a huge bull with a garland of skulls and wielding a sword with the swastika on the pommel, but it took up so much of the ceiling that I couldn't get a photo that wasn't horribly foreshortened.

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[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

That's lovely.Go cosmonauts! (Am in the Czech Republic drinking Fernet Stock Citrus. Thought of you.)