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TIL Diehard Star Trek Fans Ranked Galaxy Quest the 7th Best Star Trek film

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x61kB TIL Helsinki, Finland was used to film many Cold War era Hollywood movies when filming in the USSR was not possible. Examples include The Kremlin Letter (1970), Reds (1981), and Gorky Park (1983).
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