Postcards Advertising the ‘Bright Future’ of Communism in the Eastern Bloc

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Travellers of Eastern Europe and lovers of architecture alike are familiar with the overgrown Brutalist ruins of post-Communist post-communist landscapes. Hollow concrete hotels, dilapidated social housing blocks and decrepit monuments exist as a reminder of the downfall of the socialist states formerly known as the Eastern Bloc. While these lifeless effigies now only reflect an unfamiliar past, in the 1960s, 70s and 80s these Brutalist erections were flaunted as symbols of an optimistic…

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Postcards Advertising the ‘Bright Future’ of Communism in the Eastern Bloc
By Milly Burroughs

September 10, 2018 at 02:46AM
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