Originally Posted by KylePavao

No these photos are not mine. However, I read that these "Palaces of the Proletariat" were built mostly during the reign of Stalin. There are lots of busts of Lenin and Stalin all over the place, along with hammers and sickles, etc. I suppose the easiest way to bang in "propoganda" into the heads of the people was by making the system they use everyday extremely beautiful, and associating it with the said leaders.
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