RE: Inside Stalin's Secret Underground Propaganda Machine

It's a beautifully fascinating area of the world to be in. Especially when seeing the architecture. You really feel the past when walking through Soviet modernism. But it's a feeling that the past had things figured out, their architecture is a thing of the future, and for them that period was actually around the 60s and 70s. I often have the question of how these places would look today had things not collapsed. If the world of modernist buildings and cultural mosaics/monuments not collapsed, this would very much be like entering a retro futurist environment.

And at the same time, even with those designs, the history still speaks of so much hardship. Even before communism it was a region full of difficulties, so much unfairness. A lot of the outcomes make sense when you have large regions of people sick of elites farming all the wealth while the people struggle growing potatoes. Not so much different from today, eh? ;^)