A look at the sites populating the Soviet Union's .su domain—still kicking after all these years
By John MahoneyPosted 4.23.08 at 4:50 pm 0 Comments
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"This is the official site of the All Union Central Scientific Institute for the Study of Trotsky (colloquially sometimes also known as Trotsky's Tomb or Trotsky's Mausoleum)," says the puzzling landing (and only) page at trotsky.su.
"The Institute is located in Red Square next to Lenin's Mausoleum in a building designed by Alexey Viktorovich Shchusev in 1949, and since Trotsky's death in 1989 has been visited by many well wishers from around the world daily, except during wartime."
This is all well and good, save for the fact that Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico in 1940, where he was also buried.
The IT news site sysadmin.su wears its nostalgia on its sleeve with the clever name of Sysadmin.sUnion. That logo could use a little Sovietization though for the full effect.