We all know what will happen when humans disappear from Earth. What will happen to buildings, streets and cities. To everything they have built for thousands of years.
Everything will sooner or later be surrounded and overgrown by vegetation and destroyed.
In one way or another. By itself under the pressure of time. Or because of climatic conditions and disasters. It will be inevitable.
But what about buildings and houses that will have the same fate not because they are abandoned by people and left to the whims of fate and climatic conditions, but for other reasons? What about houses that are still inhabited, but still face the fate I just mentioned?
Seeing such buildings and such places has a very deep psychological meaning and psychological impact, believe me. Every life experience has its own psychological influence on the person who experienced it. But visiting a place like this, and I'm not accidentally showing it to you once again, has its life and mental consequences.
I'm showing you here pure examples of the so called Stalin's Baroque monumental architecture, built in the middle of the previous century.
Once monumental glorious constructions. Today - collapsing and crumbling buildings.
So, if you ever forget again that everything in this world is transient, you may need to visit this place.
One generally needs to visit poor countries.
People from poor countries always have something to teach a person from a rich country who takes many things in his life for granted.
They can teach him many things about life and death.
Just like those buildings here.
You know, I'm so impressed with this place that I set out to find someone to ask about the people who inhabit it. The people who lived here and still live from the very beginning of the construction of these buildings and the whole city in general.
Well, I found this information and although it was completely expected in terms of meaning and content, I am quite disappointed.
I was expecting something different, something more meaningful in the history of this city and this country. Alas, this is not possible.
Because, can you imagine this - the buildings I am showing you are real palaces
They were built to look like palaces and were real palaces for their time - with extremely high ceilings and spacious rooms. But do you know what happened to them and what kind of people settled inside? When we talk about communism, what do you think?
I admit, I have not read any theory about communism. I have not read any history, any textbooks that our parents have been forced to read in the past.
But I know what this regime is, based on what I have heard, experienced and seen. What I was told.
And here is an example of fulfilling the communist standards of the past:
a kind of palaces were built.
And these palaces were inhabited by working-class families.
But no, don't think that these families lived in luxury and affluence.
That they could really enjoy the wide spaces and high ceilings of this construction.
Because not a single family was housed in a single apartment in each of these buildings. But a few.
So, two or three working-class families were accommodated in homes that probably have several bedrooms, but one bathroom and toilet, one kitchen, and so on - obviously, another typical idea of the commune-ism.
Which I personally think is quite disturbing.
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