{"id":37291,"date":"2021-02-21T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T11:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=37291"},"modified":"2021-02-21T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:21:50","slug":"the-glory-of-communist-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/the-glory-of-communist-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glory of Communist Monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just a list of worthwhile links to resources on Communist buildings and monuments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kru\u0161evo Makedonium. (Photo:\u00a0vesnamarkoska\/CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Communist Monuments – Atlas Obscura<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Donald Niebyl\u00a0, Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Crazy concrete: Yugoslavia’s war memorials \u2013 in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: By Roman Geber – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Strange Soviet Buildings – English Russia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A bonus: Lego Brutalist buildings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a list of worthwhile links to resources on Communist buildings and monuments. Communist Monuments – Atlas Obscura Crazy concrete: Yugoslavia’s war memorials \u2013 in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian Strange Soviet Buildings – English Russia A bonus: Lego Brutalist buildings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-9Ht","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20919,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/dalrymple-on-the-the-purpose-of-absurd-propaganda\/","url_meta":{"origin":37291,"position":0},"title":"Dalrymple on the the purpose of absurd propaganda","author":"Limbic","date":"September 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cIn my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. 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