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Soviet tree slogans visible on Google Earth

by LotusFlower | September 25, 2008 at 12:08 pm

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Google Earth has picked up messages - Soviet slogans planted as trees in the 60's and 70's. The slogan's have only been visible to pilots and space travelers until now. What messages one wonders would our politicians now be planting? If you've got suggestions post them as comments!

the spring moon's face
about twelve years old
I'd say

kobayashi issa
(1763 -1827)

The messages, most of which were planted in fields and cleared forests during the 1960s and 1970s, have retained their shape over the decades to be picked up by the search giant’s mapping cameras.

The slogans - phrases like "USSR 50 years", "Lenin 100 years" and "Glory to the Communist Party" - were intended to trumpet the longevity of communist ideals.

Although the Soviet regime has now fallen, the tree tributes are still legible. The biggest are several hundred metres in length and composed of letters dozens of metres high.