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Block 30

Block 30

Block 30 in Belgrade, Serbia. Constructed between 1967 and 1979. Brutalist, socialist-era architecture in former Yugoslavia.

Rotunda

Rotunda

PKO Rotunda building in Warsaw, Poland. Completed in 1969 but demolished in 2017. Brutalist, Communist architecture in the former Eastern Bloc.

Memorial to the Victims of Nazism

Memorial to the Victims of Nazism

Memorial to the Victims of Nazism in Kaunas, Lithuania. Alternative names: Memorial to the Victims of Fascism and Holocaust Memorial. Brutalist monument.

Mound of Glory

Mound of Glory

Mound of Glory in Minsk, Belarus. This striking war memorial was constructed from 1967 to 1969. Soviet architecture in the former USSR.

Home of Revolution

Home of Revolution

Home of Revolution in Nikšić, Montenegro. Constructed in 1976 but never completed. Also known as Dom Revolucije and House of Revolution.

Aleksandar Nikolić Hall

Aleksandar Nikolić Hall

Aleksandar Nikolić Hall in Belgrade, Serbia. Completed in 1973. Modernist, Socialist architecture in the former Yugoslavia.

The Memorial Ossuary of Fallen Fighters

The Memorial Ossuary of Fallen Fighters

Spomenik: The Memorial Ossuary of Fallen Fighters in Kavadarci, North Macedonia. Completed in 1976. Socialist-era war memorial in the former Yugoslavia.

Sana Sanatorium

Sana Sanatorium

Sana Sanatorium in Gagra, Abkhazia. A Soviet-era health resort designed in a Brutalist style typical of the former USSR.

Bus Station Striyskyi

Bus Station Striyskyi

Bus Station Striyskyi in Lviv, Ukraine was completed in 1980. The genre is modernist, Soviet architecture, found in the former USSR.

Kielce Bus Station

Kielce Bus Station

Kielce Bus Station in Kielce, Poland. A futuristic styled bus station in the former Eastern Bloc, constructed from 1975 to 1984. Communist-era architecture.

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