Amazing Yugoslavian Monument things

[IdleRich]

Definitely the coolest thing I've seen for a few days.

And twenty odd more below.

http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/25-abandoned-soviet-monuments-that-look.html

 

[baboon2004]

Wow, they're amazing. Just chatting with a Serbian friend however, and asked for her opinion on them:

"I know most of them. Due to the book pics in primary school. They are mostly monuments to fallen soldiers and civilians during the Second World War.
However I think most of it is typically commy and very ugly!"

 

[baboon2004]

http://www.oddee.com/item_96506.aspx

found this while looking for a page with pics of Iceland's bevy of futuristic churches (no 3 in this list)

here's one i went to, set in a fishing village of 1,000 people, for useful context:

http://www.photostaud.com/europe/ic...kkisolmur-snaefellsnes-peninsula-iceland.html

 

[michael]

Intriguing monuments - some are astounding, I reckon, and it surprises me to see people calling them ugly. Looks like the images were lifted from this, which has some more background info / context / opinion:

http://www.ascmag.com/blog/2011/02/28/spomenik—jan-kempenaers-and-“the-end-of-history”/

 

[baboon2004]

Intriguing monuments - some are astounding, I reckon, and it surprises me to see people calling them ugly.

I thin they're astounding too, but put it in her context - they're monuments to dead people, and with what occurred in the 1990s that's not something people who grew up their whole childhood with that find very beautiful!

But yeah, out of context, def amazing.

 

[IdleRich]

"I know most of them. Due to the book pics in primary school. They are mostly monuments to fallen soldiers and civilians during the Second World War. However I think most of it is typically commy and very ugly!"

Yeah, reminds me of the statue park just outside Budapest where they put all the old Soviet monuments after Communism collapsed. To me it was an amazing and weird place but when I spoke to the locals they would say things like "I saw them when they were in town, why would I want to look at them now?".

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...m=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1024&bih=546

 

[Mr. Tea]

These are amazing. The top one reminds me of the Tellytubbies' house, sort of. How did you come across these, Rich?

The one with the hole is a bit like Men-an-Tol:

 

[IdleRich]

Somebody else was looking at them on facebook.

 

[sufi]

monument to the poorly shod freedom fighters of eritrea

 

[sufi]

& this one, abandoned and urbexed in bulgaria

 

[Leo]

i love how many of these are in the middle of nowhere, like they landed from outer space.

 

[baboon2004]

first one, my personal favourite, is in podgorica, croatia, if it doesn't say... (not pictured here, first one on the link)

 

[Mr. Tea]

i love how many of these are in the middle of nowhere, like they landed from outer space.

Yeah, don't they? Sufi's last photo above looks like something out of Close Encounters...

 

[Dr Awesome]

Wow. Awesome.
Love that moon-dome thing Sufi.

For those interested in similar stuff; check this website out.

 

[e/y]

cannot stop looking at the interior shot of the UFO / monument to socialism that sufi posted.

I'm currently living here, really want to find some film so I can take pictures of some of the buildings here, before they get knocked down and replaced with some plastic monstrosity.

a recent piece in the Guardian about a book of Soviet architecture: http://goo.gl/K2joR

 

[IdleRich]

Such a shame if these things get knocked down - why?

 

[IdleRich]

More from that Chaubin book (presumably)

 

[e/y]

Such a shame if these things get knocked down - why?

sorry, I meant the soviet-era buildings in the city I'm currently living in (capital of The Most Failed State You Know Least About) getting knocked down, rather than the monuments / sculptures in the photos in this thread.

 

[IdleRich]

Sure but in the article you linked to it says that a lot of the other things are going too.

 

[e/y]

(sorry, only just saw you post, Idle)

Combination of neglect by the state and rampant real estate development (aka money laundering) which requires new land, I'd guess. There isn't really much in the way of conservation in the former USSR.


btw, a band called Unknown Mortal Orchestra used one of the Yugoslav WWII memorials in the first post for their album: