Prufrock: Nazi Minds, Boomer Nostalgia, and More

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The ugliness and diversity of Soviet architecture: “Some of the places Hatherley visits include public libraries throughout the Soviet bloc; art-house cinemas and milk bars in 1960s Poland, where surrealism almost became a standard decorative form; television towers in Moscow and Vilnius, which became monuments of modern mass media; the brutalist apartment complexes of Nicolae Ceausescu’s Romania, where society more closely resembled North Korea than Russia; and the metro stations of Moscow, which Hatherley believes are the one specimen of Soviet architecture and public infrastructure superior to anything built in the West.”