Far from being turned off with anything from the Soviet Bloc, I'm strangely drawn to some of their technology and architecture, everything they did seemed to be a mishmash of Hi Tech and band aids and string.
For example take the Apollo capsule and compare it with the Voskhod/Soyuz capsules, one was cutting edge technology of the day, the other looked like it had been made in Jules Verne's day, and yet both US and Soviet capsules did what they were designed to do.
Then think about the TU-95, whoever in their right mind would build a propellor driven plane and put it on their front line in the age of the jet? The propeller tips tun at supersonic speed and is the fastest prop plane ever built. The Ekranoplan what is that, which other nation on earth would build that?
K.W. Jeter coined the phrase 'Steam Punk' and I'm convinced he had half an eye on Soviet technology at the time.
Although the STALKER series (of games) is set in Ukraine itself most of the architecture there is from when it belonged in the USSR and the eerie
models of the run down buildings have a uniquely Soviet feel to them and the same job lot of light blue paint that was ubiquitous in buildings, aircraft cockpits and on cars through the length and breadth of the Soviet Union.
You have to jokingly wonder whether these people arrived from another world as everything is so different in what they did.
@JIO most of your guitars are unique and very special, but I'd say this one is very special and you've done really well to acquire it and to nurse it back to former glory and if anyone has the skills to patiently restore it, it'd be you. You can see the history dripping off it in your minds eye where it would be played in 80's with a cheezy band wearing flares and tanktops with 70's haircuts in some smokey run down bar in Moscow or East Berlin.
It's an absolutely magnificent artifact, and it's fantastic that it hasn't been turned to firewood. Well done, and always looking out for your next project.
For example take the Apollo capsule and compare it with the Voskhod/Soyuz capsules, one was cutting edge technology of the day, the other looked like it had been made in Jules Verne's day, and yet both US and Soviet capsules did what they were designed to do.
Then think about the TU-95, whoever in their right mind would build a propellor driven plane and put it on their front line in the age of the jet? The propeller tips tun at supersonic speed and is the fastest prop plane ever built. The Ekranoplan what is that, which other nation on earth would build that?
K.W. Jeter coined the phrase 'Steam Punk' and I'm convinced he had half an eye on Soviet technology at the time.
Although the STALKER series (of games) is set in Ukraine itself most of the architecture there is from when it belonged in the USSR and the eerie
models of the run down buildings have a uniquely Soviet feel to them and the same job lot of light blue paint that was ubiquitous in buildings, aircraft cockpits and on cars through the length and breadth of the Soviet Union.
You have to jokingly wonder whether these people arrived from another world as everything is so different in what they did.
@JIO most of your guitars are unique and very special, but I'd say this one is very special and you've done really well to acquire it and to nurse it back to former glory and if anyone has the skills to patiently restore it, it'd be you. You can see the history dripping off it in your minds eye where it would be played in 80's with a cheezy band wearing flares and tanktops with 70's haircuts in some smokey run down bar in Moscow or East Berlin.
It's an absolutely magnificent artifact, and it's fantastic that it hasn't been turned to firewood. Well done, and always looking out for your next project.
Yes, the "Triple C P-Bass" - well played! 
(I exaggerate, but yaknowhadimean)
