[nickhalfasleep]

I have a set of 1980’s Soviet maps of the state of Colorado, and they are oddly accurate for the railroads.

Conversely, when my parents visited Moscow in 1975, many locals offered to trade goods to get their Finnish tourist map of Moscow; since it was more detailed than the local maps they had access to.

[ahazred8ta]

Bootleg photocopies of the nonclassified CIA map of Moscow were very popular. Even among soviet government employees. https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/st...

When Napoleon invaded Russia, one of his big problems was that he couldn't get maps of Russian roads; there were no such maps.