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Article: Cold War nostalgia spawns museums, memorabilia trades.(C)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 23, 1999
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The Cold War is very hot. As in chic.
Though the Soviet Union collapsed a decade ago, many of us remain fixated on those haunting decades of doomsday, duck-and-cover and consummate evil.
There is a quirky cache here.
Anyone for a steel control clock from a decommissioned Tupolev long-range bomber? This one was part of the mechanism for dropping the big one - and built to last 500 years.
It costs $350 from Sovietski, a San Diego-based company that sells Cold War icons - from KGB liquor flasks to "Excellent Propagandist" medals, Kremlin silverware and bomber ejection seats ($1,450 "as is").
"The Cold War was a defining ...