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An official atlas of North Korea

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macintux ◴[17 Nov 25 18:59 UTC] No.45956753[source]▶
My small-town public library growing up had a great resource that I did not appreciate at the time: an English translation of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia[0].

I really wish I had spent time with it. If nothing else it would have given me some questions to ask my history teachers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Soviet_Encyclopedia

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nocoiner ◴[17 Nov 25 19:05 UTC] No.45956817[source]▶
Wow! I would have been absolutely fascinated by this when I was a kid.

I remember once wandering around my college library and finding the book “The Soviet Economy Through the Year 2000.” This occurred during the current millennium.

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1. man8alexd ◴[17 Nov 25 20:26 UTC] No.45957882[source]▶
My grandpa had the full 50-volume edition of the encyclopedia published in the 1950s. I spent a lot of time digging through it in my pre-teen years.