Moskva swimming pool

Once the largest open air swimming pool in the world, for ever the largest for the child I was, the Moskva swimming pool stood on the Propaganda Square at the foot of the Kremlin. In the great chess game of the 20th century, she is the Queen who destroyed the original Cathedral, stole the throne of the giant Lenin, and ended up overthrown by religion and replaced by the Christ the Savior. A flamboyant propaganda flag claiming that ’Sport is health and beauty’ stands under the Tsars’ Palace. Humidifying the walls of all neighboring buildings with its dense chlorine vapor, it ended up rotten in the great wreck of Soviet utopia.

Soviet Flag

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