When Prague’s metro station Anděl was called Moskevská

With intertwined Soviet and Czechoslovak flags, inscriptions in Cyrillic, cosmonauts, and a portrait of Pushkin, Prague’s Anděl metro station on line B is a trove of artistic and historical curiosities.

Tomáš Nigrin, Social Sciences Professor at Charles University and a specialist in the history of Czech railways, takes us on a tour of Smíchov’s Anděl metro station, originally built to celebrate the friendship between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.

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