Architecture from the mid-20th century has not stood the test of time. People didn't love her. This is especially true for ex-communist countries in Europe and Central Asia. The communist ideology, which flowed through all phases of life there, was imposed and consolidated through socialist architecture, among other things. This gave not only boring, but sometimes also extremely bizarre objects. Some of them are still standing 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Although architecture and art from socialist times were back in vogue years ago, this can be attributed to the "vintage" phenomenon rather than the fact that the architectural legacy of socialism she just needed time for people to love her. Architecture, which looked towards monumentality and classicism and which we first associate with boring apartment blocks, remains a weak historical period in architecture. But she gave it her all some bizarre cases and some of them are still standing.
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Bizarre architectural remnants of socialism
Slovak Radio building in Bratislava.
Monument to the Revolution of the Moslavina Nations in Podgarić, Croatia.
The former headquarters of the Bulgarian Communist Party on top of Mount Buzludzha in Bulgaria. It is also called the "flying concrete saucer".
The interior of the "flying concrete saucer".
Hotel Forum in Krakow, Poland.
The Makedonium monument is dedicated to the memory of the uprising of 1903 (the Ilinden uprising) and is located on the Gumenje hill near Kruševo in Macedonia.
The former home of the Ministry of Transport, now home to the State Bank (Georgia).
The circus in Chisinau (Moldova) is completely abandoned today.
Shumen is a monument erected on the 1300th anniversary of Bulgaria.
Motherland in Volgograd, which used to be Stalingrad (Russia). The statue was erected in 1967 in memory and reminder of the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, which is considered the greatest battle in the history of mankind.
A resort in Ukraine that combined two late socialist trends: building above the ground and resemblance to UFOs.
Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Cybernetics (RTC) in St. Petersburg.
The 33-meter monument to those who fell on Kozara stands in Mrakovice (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Of course, that most impressive building, the 500-meter Palace of the Soviets, never grew. Reason? World War II.
