As a student in the 1980s, I had several Soviet maps of parts of Asia because no...

		wrp 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Soviet Maps (2021) As a student in the 1980s, I had several Soviet maps of parts of Asia because nothing of comparable detail was published in the West. Soviet ethnographic maps were incredible and I think they still surpass anything published later. The USSR in general took cultural geography more seriously.

There were internal state security reasons for that.