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Sovtastic Awesomeness
« on: 16 February, 2011, 12:27:56 AM »
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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #1 on: 16 February, 2011, 12:36:04 AM »
saw this the other day - my favourite is the palace of ceremonies.
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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #2 on: 16 February, 2011, 12:39:33 AM »
It's like an Ezquerra building.


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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #3 on: 16 February, 2011, 09:16:42 AM »
Makes a fascinating contrast to this.

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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #4 on: 16 February, 2011, 09:22:27 AM »
This place is pretty cool too...
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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #5 on: 16 February, 2011, 09:45:53 AM »
Quote from: Banners on 16 February, 2011, 09:22:27 AM
This place is pretty cool too...

I love the way the Cold War rumbles on in the comments on that page.
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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #6 on: 16 February, 2011, 11:26:53 AM »
This thread is going in my bookmarks..

more please
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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #7 on: 16 February, 2011, 11:41:22 AM »
Quote from: johnnystress on 16 February, 2011, 11:26:53 AM
more please

Through the rust, and the gasoline…

Each of those thumbnails clicks through to an album, BTW.

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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #8 on: 16 February, 2011, 11:53:52 AM »
Excellent JIm-- there are a few 'abandoned' collections out there-- facinating, poignant,

keep em coming
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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #9 on: 16 February, 2011, 11:56:11 AM »
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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #10 on: 16 February, 2011, 11:56:52 AM »
The work of John_Salt is worth checking out if you like that kind of thing (albeit American, not Russian!)
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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #11 on: 16 February, 2011, 11:57:56 AM »
I have climbed all over this one: http://www.abandoned.ru/thumb.php?gal=14 in the Stalker games!
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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #12 on: 16 February, 2011, 12:59:11 PM »
a collected photomontage of those building would be great, make a nice Sov-Mega-Blk.
 
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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #13 on: 16 February, 2011, 01:50:25 PM »
Wow! Some fantastic stuff there...what is it about destitute industrial areas and machinery that is so good?

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Re: Sovtastic Awesomeness
« Reply #14 on: 16 February, 2011, 01:53:17 PM »
Quote from: Proudhuff on 16 February, 2011, 12:59:11 PM
a collected photomontage of those building would be great, make a nice Sov-Mega-Blk.

Indeed. If only someone had been working on a pre-Apocalypse War Sov-Block-based story and had been inspired in part by the notion of a whole city built in the style of the Soviet constructivists … oh, wait…

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