Victory of Democracy
At two hundred and thirty-one metres high the Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science is one of the most notorious examples of Soviet Realist architecture of the 1950s and you can’t miss it because it is the tallest building in Poland and the eighth highest in the European Union. It was commissioned by Josef Stalin as a gift from the people of the Soviet Union and was supposed to be symbolic of the victory of communism over capitalism.
Next to it are the gleaming structures of the modern business quarter of Warsaw which represent the victory of democracy over tyranny, of free market over central planning, of capitalism over communism.
Have Bag, Will Travel 
So, here you have the complete cycle of architecture from communism through to capitalism.
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I wonder what comes next?
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Good question!
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Looks a bit severe towering over the other buildings I must say. Still laughing at the turtle elevator session.
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It will take some knocking down, that’s for sure!
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