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The U.S.S.R. Pavilion's iconic sign being erected before the World's Fair.

Image courtesy of the Spokane Public Library's Northwest Room.

This file appears in: Cold War Thaw

By Cory Carpenter
The 1974 World's Fair took place against a backdrop of improving relations between the United States and Soviet Russia. In May of 1972, USSR officials and President Nixon signed an environmental accord contributing to a general thawing of the…