This Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship memorial in Varna is eerily similar to a more recent crappy communist inspired sculpture that was unveiled in Washington, D.C. in 2011. This Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship memorial in Varna is eerily similar to a more recent crappy communist inspired sculpture that was unveiled in Washington, D.C. in 2011.More at: Urban Exploration | Soviet Propaganda Centre, Bulgaria
http://bohemian-blog.blogspot.com/2012/04/urban-exploration-soviet-propaganda.html
Reminds me of the original DOOM labyrinth
It looks like most of New York State’s government architecture of the same period. Of course, the reasons are obvious.
That’s exactly what came to my mind too!
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away”.
- Percy Shelley
Very cool. I love this kind of thing. Thanks for posting.
For all their love of gray concrete, you'd think the Soviets would have been better at making and using it. That thing is crumbling but isn't all that old.
There are old abandoned military structures in Northern California dotting the coastline, from the Marin Headlands on down to almost Santa Cruz, that have a similar feel, sans the heroic ornamentation. There's one at a curve on highway 1, out on the top of a palisade looking out toward the Pacific, that is particularly striking and sort of ominous, particularly in late morning when the sun's just popping through and the marine layer of fog is receding out to sea.