Russians Were Once Banned From a Third of the U.S.
▻https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/03/russia-cold-war-travel-ban-maps-red-scare
Russians Were Once Banned From a Third of the U.S.
A 1957 map shows that Soviet visitors were barred from most of New York’s Long Island—and the entire state of Washington.
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By Greg Miller
From election interference to alleged nerve poison attacks, Russian meddling has flung the world into a haze of paranoia. At the height of the Cold War, similar mistrust of the Soviet Union led the U.S. to make an extraordinary map showing places where Russian visitors could not legally go.
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