Lenin Welcomes You
This file appears in: Cold War Thaw: Expo '74 and Riverfront Park Tour - Stop 4
The entrance to the U.S.S.R. pavilion, featuring a ten foot tall bust of Lenin, greeting all who entered the pavilion.
Image courtesy of the Spokane Public Library's Northwest Room
This file appears in: Cold War Thaw: Expo '74 and Riverfront Park Tour - Stop 4
Cold War Thaw: Expo '74 and Riverfront Park Tour - Stop 4
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…