b'What happened in St Petersburg after the 1917 Revolution and where can you find traces of the Soviet era in the city today?\\xa0 After a little history, we visit three sites with much to tell: the terrifying Trubetskoy Bastion Prison, the State Museum of Political History and the former home of the dissident poet Anna Akhmatova.\\xa0 After a look at metro stations designed in the 1950s as \\u2018Palaces of the People\\u2019, find out where you can experience Soviet culture today, whether you wish to play 1970s arcade games like Morskoi Boi (battleships!), dine in a Soviet-style restaurant on, say, borscht or draniki (beetroot soup or potato pancakes) or seek out the Donut Caf\\xe9 where the atmosphere today still feels like \\u2018Stalin-era Russia.\\u2019\\nhttp://www.citybreakspodcast.co.uk'