Owen Hatherley on Kyiv’s struggle with its Soviet architectural heritage
It’s a reminder that decommunisation is a project which might actually be physically impossible to execute in full, which hopefully begs the question — if Soviet Ukraine can’t be wished away, what should be conserved, and what should be rejected? […]
The nationalist purging of any traces of socialism from the landscape is a fool’s errand at best, gross historical revisionism at worst.
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