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by ahazred8ta 272 days ago
Bootleg photocopies of the nonclassified CIA map of Moscow were very popular. Even among soviet government employees. https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/st...

When Napoleon invaded Russia, one of his big problems was that he couldn't get maps of Russian roads; there were no such maps.