re: Some absolutely beautiful Soviet architecture

Jesus

Just like an encapsulation of the authoritarian hopelessness of the reality of communism

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depression and a lot of vodka.

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Russia in a nutshell

Go your arse whooped on every other topic you decided to post on so you started an architecture thread?

And then you went Soviet.......

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Brutalist architecture is the absolute ugliest thing on the face of the planet.

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Hence why government’s choose it to exert dominance and take all hope away from the masses.

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If the cost of the Obama library ain’t the most government thing ever I don’t know what is

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Presidential libraries are privately funded though

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It looks like a prison in a dystopian sci fi movie

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That is the purpose of brutalism.

Emotionally depress.