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The \"Kolos\" fountain hasn't been working for two years because the pressure system needs to be replaced. The \"Space\" pavilion is in a pitiful state. It needs 10 million dollars to restore it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Vasily Shupira, Exhibition Centre Director\u003cbr/\u003eFor, like mush of the rest of the former U-S-S-R the V-D-N-K is suffering a crisis of funding.\u003cbr/\u003eIts famous \"Space\" pavilion is looking the worse for wear.\u003cbr/\u003eUnder the photo of Yury Gagarin, the first man to orbit the earth, Soviet citizens once came to share in one of the Soviet Union's greatest achievements - the conquest of space.\u003cbr/\u003eThe final indignity, before the pavilion closed completely, was to be used as a market place for electrical goods.\u003cbr/\u003eOther buildings continue to be used for the pursuit of profit.\u003cbr/\u003eThe centre's management claims money from the sales will be ploughed back into what's left of the exhibits.\u003cbr/\u003eEven if the cash raised is enough to keep the ailing centre going, Muscovites, who have grown up visiting its displays, say its too little, too late. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Russian)\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are a lot fewer exhibitions now. Basically it's all shopping now. Before you could take a look at the animals, take a horse ride...Now it's just shopping, clothes, not much. Half of it's O.K., half of it's bad.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Voxpop\u003cbr/\u003eNikolai Ryzhkov will continue his efforts to preserve this symbol of the worker's revolution.\u003cbr/\u003eBut it seems unlikely Soviet-style tractor exhibitions can do much to conjure up the glory days of the V-D-N-K's past\u003cbr/\u003eFor the moment it seems the modern, capitalist, Russia, has no money to spend preserving its communist past.\u003cbr/\u003eMoscow, Russia - July 27-29 1999 and file \u003cbr/\u003eMoscow, July 27-29\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of All-Russian Exhibition centre, fountains, pavilions\u003cbr/\u003e2. Golden statues depicting peasants\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide shot of fountain\u003cbr/\u003e4. Young girl and grandfather walk beside fountain\u003cbr/\u003eBlack and white file of exhibition centre from Soviet film, 1941\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various shots of fountain\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide shot of centre, Soviet flag, crowd\u003cbr/\u003e7. Soviet citizens in national costume walking past\u003cbr/\u003e8. Three peasant girls laughing\u003cbr/\u003eMoscow, July 27-29\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up of woman in national Russian costume with bread (traditional greeting)\u003cbr/\u003e10. Former Prime Minister of Soviet Union Nikolai Ryzhkov (left) and exhibition centre director Vasily Shupira cut ribbon to open new exhibition\u003cbr/\u003e11. New exhibition logo\u003cbr/\u003e12. Gardeners planting seeds\u003cbr/\u003e13. Flower display being planted \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vasily Shupira, Exhibition Centre Director \u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide shot of rocket in front of \"Space\" pavilion\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close up of poor state of rocket's jets\u003cbr/\u003e17. Cartload of TVs being pushed into \"Space\" pavilion\u003cbr/\u003e18. Inside pavilion - huge photo of Yuri Gagarin, first man in space and spaceship\u003cbr/\u003eMoscow, July 27-29\u003cbr/\u003e19. Inside pavilion where TV and hifi goods are being sold\u003cbr/\u003e20. Bank of TVs\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various of two men carrying TV\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Voxpop\u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide shot of interior of pavilion with new stalls\u003cbr/\u003e24. Ryzhkov and fashion designer Slava Zaitsev (in green jacket) walk past stalls\u003cbr/\u003e25. Tractors and lawnmowers on show\u003cbr/\u003e26. Pull out from reflection of two girls in window of tractor to mid shot of tractor\u003cbr/\u003e27. Famous statue showing worker and peasant\u003cbr/\u003e28. 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