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Formula Easter, from Russia with love

Have you ever heard of Formula Easter? Probably not – most people haven’t. Formula Easter was Russia’s very own racing series –- and no, we’re talking about the good old USS of R – CCCP, Communist Cold War Russia. Yes, they actually did race cars behind the Iron Curtain and there were also and are many petrolheads in the country! Going back in history, the Cold War came about in a sort of a rift between the Eastern Bloc and the Western World. In his famous 1946 ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech, Winston Churchill talked of Moscow drawing an Iron Curtain as Russia secluded itself from the West when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics strengthened ties with the Balkans East...
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