The Western farm expert had never seen anything like it. On a tour last summer of Soviet collective farms, he was shown fields full of weeds, cabbages crawling with caterpillars, diseased corn. At a ...

In Leningrad, a group of Soviet laborers starts the process of destroying tons of rotting potatoes, decaying into sticky mush in railroad boxcars never designed for storage. The stench is ...

Communication Director Andrew Hartwell peaks out from some Soviet era paintings including one where someone shot Lenin in the head and a Soviet farm girl at The Wende Museum in Culver City. (Photo by ...