Communist Architecture

One of the largest public squares in the world, named after the former DPRK supreme leader.

Serbia's master of striking memorials erected a forgotten, hidden gem in the hills outside a tiny village.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.