A Journey Through Stalinist Architecture around the World Part V: The Former Eastern Bloc

On the next leg of this series, we're going to take a look at the former Eastern Bloc which consisted of the countries of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania.

Now for the purposes of simplicity, the former German Democratic Republic will be explored in a different post as the GDR had a sizable amount of architecture that would make this post just way too long.

The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland

 Ministry of Agriculture in Warsaw, Poland

Nowa Huta District of Krakow, Poland

Former Communist Party House in Sofia, Bulgaria

Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania. 

Interestingly enough, the Palace of Parliament in Romania was commissioned to be built several decades after the initial phase of Stalinist architecture had been built, which was during the 1950's. The Palace of Parliament was started in 1984 and finally completed in 1990.

Dunaújváros in Hungary

 

TZUM Department Store in Sofia, Bulgaria

 

House of the Free Press in Bucharest, Romania.

Hotel Crowne Plaza in Prague, Czech Republic 

On the next installment, we'll take a look at the German Democratic Republic, more commonly referred to as East Germany!

I totally forgot about it..

I just remembered now... Seven days ago, the Second World War started and I forgot to make some sort of for its anniversary. Well that's not ideal... I completely forgot the start of the war and I only remembered it today.

I don't even know why I made this post involving this.. Oh well..

You can't make enough posts involving little Poland.

Polandball Comic#1

Well, every few days I'll be surfing the Internet for Polandball comics and share them in this blog. If you don't know what Polandball is, then let me explain. Polandball is a meme that uses balls to personify countries. You will know which country is which due to that their flags are in the ball as well. The star of many of these comics is Polandball, a ball signifying Poland, but other countries star in their own comics such as this one.