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Oh, yeah, they built some good art structures and buildings for the ones in power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motherland_Calls

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Motherland,_Kiev

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin's_Mausoleum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Soviets (not built)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament

Too bad they did not put that much creativity and thought into buildings for ordinary citizens.



Wow, thanks for those links. Though I knew of Lenin's mausoleum and Romania's mega Palace of the People.

But that statue, The Motherland Calls, wow!




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