The USSR bureaucrat's lamp (KGB, NKVD)
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A well-known tabletop carbolite lamp, sometimes called a “Stallin's lamp” or “NKVD (KGB) lamp”, is present in many movies as an indispensable attribute of the desktop a bureaucrat, or as an attribute of interrogation in the NKVD.
Karbolite is similar to bakelite, the first industrial plastic material. "It will not burn. It will not melt." - was written on the front page of the Time-Magazine in September 1924. In Russia bakelite was synthesised in 1914.
The lamp was designed from pictures
Karbolite is similar to bakelite, the first industrial plastic material. "It will not burn. It will not melt." - was written on the front page of the Time-Magazine in September 1924. In Russia bakelite was synthesised in 1914.
The lamp was designed from pictures
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