1. Shaoshan Chong, Red Guards
The Shaoshan Chong restaurant is situated in Nanning, China. The restaurant served to remind the China people of the cultural revolution during the Mao Zedong era. The waitresses who serve the local delicacies to the patrons are dressed in the Red Guard uniform. Red Guards are actually the army units formed by Mao Zedong to wipe out the revisionist and Western influence in China.
2. People's Republik
The People's Republik bar is a Soviet Socialist themed bar situated in Central Square in Boston. The interior is decorated with funky socialist and communist propaganda posters. This bar is a favorite hangout for the college students nearby. It serves good food and drinks at affordable price.
3. Lenin's Mating Call
This is actually a Soviet themed restaurant and bar located in South Nevsky, Russia. There is an iron curtain that hangs overhead near the entrance of the restaurant. The dining hall is divided into two halls- Soviet room and the other, anti-Soviet room. The Soviet room has Lenin portraits on the wall and offers a classic Soviet menu with the local Russian favorites.
The anti-Soviet room has parody posters and references to liberalization, sex and drugs. The anti-Soviet offers bourgeois dishes such as fondue and crab. The waitresses are dressed in sexy Communist Party Pioneer uniforms with naughty red high heels, red fishnets and the soviet symbol "hammer and sickle" garters.
4. KGB Bar
In the 1940s, this place was once the local headquarters of a radical left wing Ukrainian socialist party, situated in New York city. Living up to its name, the KGB (Soviet Intelligence) Bar was opened in 1993 with propaganda posters and portraits of the earlier party leaders decorating the interior.
Now, the KGB is better known as one of the best New York literary venue establishments, with reading sessions almost daily where a great get-together venue has established for struggling writers to share their work and ideas - but even more importantly, to get noticed.
5. Stalin's Bunker
This is one of Stalin's actual secret tunnels and has a bunker built in 1939 during the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, Russia. Just above the secret hide-out, was an athletic field or type of stadium as a facade. Now, the bunker is a part of the Central Armed Forces Museum with a Georgian Restaurant that is decorated with Stalin's memorabilia, suitable for private parties.
6. Khmer Rouge Experience Cafe
This cafe is located near the once Khmer Rouge interrogation and torture chamber (better known as the Killing Fields) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge Cafe is meant to remind the public of the genocide in 1975-1979 during Pol Pot's era. The waitresses are dressed in the local guerrillas black uniforms. Most visitors may not be able to even stomach the food as the "Khmer Rouge detainees set menu" includes rice water, corn mixed with water and leaves, dove eggs and tea, which costs $6 per set.
7. Hitler's Cross
In 2006, a controversial Hitler themed restaurant was opened at Kaghar in Mumbai, India. The name actually refers to the symbol of the Nazi regime, "swastika" which was also the sacred symbol in the Aryan civilization. Although the restaurant's owner claimed that his restaurant has no intention of promoting Hitler and his Nazi party, Hitler's portrait was displayed at the entrance of the restaurant and the interior of the restaurants are decorated in the Nazi party colors - white, red and black.
However, after much public criticism, the restaurant was renamed the "Cross Cafe", the swastika symbol was replaced with multicolored bands, and Hitler's name as well as his portrait was taken down at last.
