It’s a Cold War at the Wende Museum
Josef Stalin and other reminders of the former Soviet Union. PhotoComrade, please step this way The Wende Museum of the Cold War is now open in Culver City “I am Walking on the Moon!” (1970), Soviet propaganda poster by V.M. Briskin and V.P. ViktorovOne day the years from 1945 to 1991 will seem like a blip on the screen, but that was the era of the Cold War when tensions ran high between Russia and the United States, between democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe. We might assume that an institution devoted to this time period would be quite specialized and even rather dull, but for those harboring such a notion there’s a surprise in store. The Wende Museum opened in Culver City this past weekend. On Friday, founder Justinian Jampol and chief curator Joes Segal invited the press to have a look at their new digs, a far cry, in many senses, from the business park site that formerly housed the collection. Addressing those gathered, Jampol said, “I don’t think there’s any better symbol of this journey than the fact that where we are is a (former) Cold War National Guard Armory, and if that’s not poetic, I don’t know what is. A place that was built for war has been…
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