Moscow Communist Tour

For more than 70 years Moscow was the capital of the huge Soviet empire. The streets of the city are still full of remnants of the communist regime and the Cold War, and the fearsome Soviet strongholds still guard the young democracy in Russia. Discover hidden pages of the Soviet history from the Great October Revolution to Perestroika, from Lenin to Gorbachev. We will talk about the Great Terror of Stalin times, the GULAG system, the secret KGB prison and how people lived in the Soviet Union.

You will have a chance to visit and learn about:
Ex-KGB headquarters on Lubyanka square
Solovetsky Stone, the memorial to the victims of political repressions
Bolshoi Theatre building (no visit inside)
Tverskaya Street which is the main street of the city
Eliseevsky Gastronum, the most important and beautiful grocery store in the USSR
The first McDonald's in the USSR right in the center of the city

Time: 5:30 PM, every day