Talk:Kremlin stars

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I believe we should mention that the only time when the stars' light was turned out was in the mid-1990s, when Nikita Mikhalkov's The Barber of Siberia was being filmed on Sobornaya Square. In the film, Kremlin stars were replaced with imperial eagles using modern computer technology. Also, we should mention that stars formerly crowning the towers of the State Historical Museum were recently replaced with imperial eagles. --Ghirla -трёп- 08:21, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm sort of curious to know what modern Russian opinion of the stars is. Does it correlate with the fortunes of the Communist/socialist party? Given that there's a vocal monarchist minority, is there anybody pushing to put the eagles back? --Dhartung | Talk 03:17, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Of course they do. But the stars have become a symbol in their own right. It would have been a pity to lose them. Therefore, they restored the eagles on the State Historical Museum only, which gives a strange impression when you stand between the Kremlin towers and the Historical museum and see Soviet stars on your right and imperial eagles on your left... --Ghirla -трёп- 13:41, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

A close-up picture of a star would be nice. Dr. Dan 14:27, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm going to mix up the pictures a bit. I mean, when I looked at this article, I was expecting the close-up first. Zero R 02:51, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ruby Glass

Is Cranberry glass the 'ruby glass' referenced in the article? Elijahmeeks 17:39, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Looks like it is the same or something very similar. I have been to museum of the factory in Gus-Khrustalny and they described something very similar. In my SPb apartment there is even a small piece of glass from the sheet (they are actually made much more laminated glass then they need for the stars, so they distribute pieces of broken ones as souvenirs abakharev 03:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
    • It is called рубиновое стекло in Russian. Cranberry or not, I don't know :). KNewman 06:11, 2 May 2006 (UTC)