Weirdest commie buildings

Stalinist realism. We've all heard of it. Well, most of us anyway. It's an architectural style that still defines large swaths of urban territory across East Europe, parts of Asia and even Africa and Latin America. Wherever communism has set foot at least for a while, we see gargantuan concrete mastodons. We've talked about life in those monsters before here. But what about the most extreme and weird specimens of that epoch? Here are a few that will sure raise a few eyebrows.

 

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