Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Soviet Remnants.




Soviet diamond mind. They had some great ideas, didn't they? They actually got a zillion dollars worth of diamonds out of that hole. Picturesque town planning, no?

I first encountered the concept of Soviet remnants with the iconic ferris wheel photo from the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear facility in the abandoned, planned town of Pripyat. Today...apropos of what I don't rem...Oh! There was an article on arts and letters daily...apropos of that article I started looking.





That is in one of the Soviet's former satellite countries, Bulgaria maybe.




Isn't that amazing? I had to convince myself that that wasn't photo-shopped or a painting or something. It's real and is current-ish, from 2007 or 2008 in Belarus. Look at that sculpture. Lol Rooski.

From King Tut's tomb. Just kidding. Also from a former satellite country, one of the Baltics, I think. Rooski had a HUGE satellite installation there.

From the same place. A lounge for the workers.

Also from an ex-satellite, Bulgaria again I think. My favorite part of this photo is the forest growing out of one of the rear boxcars.


Soviet era apartment building. The architect, I believe his name was "Lego" or something like that.

Lego did a lot of business.

Prison in one of the Baltic states.