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1961 Soviet Industrial Exhibition
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Soviet Industrial Exhibition Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Flag of the Soviet Union July 1961 Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London
The Soviets Industrial Exhibition opened in July 1961 in London at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre.Barnett 2025 267Cross 2012 Chapter 20
The Soviet exhibition was the USSR’s largest foreign display to date with the Foreign Office briefing that it was "larger than the Soviet Exhibit at the Brussels fair" in 1958.Barnett 2025 267
The exhibition’s opening was attended by Prime Minister Macmillan and other cabinet members.Barnett 2025 267
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Barnett Nicholas December 2025 The British State–Private Network and Way of Life Propaganda at the Anglo-Soviet Trade Fairs of 1961 Transactions of the Royal Historical Society en 3 253–276 10.1017/S0080440125100182 0080-4401 free by4 yes
Cross Anthony Anthony Cross A People Passing Rude: British Responses to Russian Culture 1 November 2012 Open Book Publishers 978-1-909254-10-7 English 10.11647/OBP.0022 free
External links
Russia Opens Trade Fair (1961), a news report by Pathé News via YouTube
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