Art of the Soviet Pavilion
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An image from a postcard depicting a mural on the exterior wall of the U.S.S.R. Pavilion.
Image courtesy of Anna Harbine
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Cold War Thaw
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…