Warsaw: Palace of Culture and Science - A 'Gift' from the USSR

Revisiting an old topic...The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw is one of the biggest monuments to be found in the city, one of the first buildings constructed after World War 2, it dominates Warsaw's skyline and has moved from a symbol of shame and submission to one of independence and pride!

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[amjadal-kadhi]

53 years later.... and things looks so small as I remember them from the time back then

[izabela]

A tourist guide told me that some of the Soviet workers were so drunk that they fell down from the walls they were building and hit the fresh concrete and nobody cared to take them back. They left the bodies in walls and basements for good.

[Acidlib]

I’ve been interested in Poland since I was 14 and first heard “Warszawa” off his album _Low_ (part of his “Berlin Trilogy” that he made with Producer and electronic musician, Brian Eno during the late 70s), one of the few songs or albums that have stuck with me for this long. It’s always amazed me that despite the immense tragedy Poland has been through, caught between two evil empires, losing so many innocent lives to war, genocide and other crimes against humanity, as well as subsequent communist rule, they were still able to get where they are today and throughout all that they’ve somehow managed to retain their culture. This economic development was no doubt helped by integration with the EU, savvy economic strategy and, most importantly, the hard work of ordinary citizens, I hope to see a bit of what they’ve accomplished in person some day. I hope this similar story is able to repeat itself in Ukraine, similar to the economic prosperity of West Germany and Romania, before and after Poland’s, respectively, but first this war has to end and Poland has gone above and beyond helping to send the Russians home in order to end this cycle of brutality.

[benwars]

Unlike some of my fellow Varsovians, I don't have any real problem with the PKiN (the Palace of Culture and Science), it has always been there as far as I remember, so I'm used to it, even though its architecture is Soviet. What truly bothers me is the huge open area around it, the so-called Plac Defilad (Parades Square), densely built over before WW2, now serving as a car park that I hate with passion. Fortunately, now this empty space without buildings is slowly being reduced by the construction of MSN (the Museum of Modern Arts); hopefully more changes will follow (a square surrounded by buildings is planned in front of the main entrance to PKiN). I'd also like buildings to be erected along Jerusalem Avenue, to further reduce what I consider PKiN's excessive visual omnipresence in the city centre. Btw, the graves of 15 construction workers who lost their lives during the development of PKiN (all or most of them Russian) are at the Eastern Orthodox cemetery in the Wola district.

[tomekhauzer]

Dirty bugger needs a good wash and the area around the palace should be be better developed.

[henrykstopikowski]

BRAVO, MAZOVIAN SELF-GOVERNMENT COMMUNITY! I have been fighting to demolish this building (I do not use the name because it disgusts me) since 2006. My entries at that time were immediately deleted by the red admirers of Stalin's genocide. I am glad that sensible people have joined my appeal, and I wish you good luck with all my heart. First of all, it is necessary to change the record established by the enemies of the Republic of Poland about the "historic object" of this dump and quickly plant dynamite so that no one thinks otherwise. This is what I wish you and myself with all my heart that I can visit Poland again, because this bogeyman will defeat me.

[henrykstopikowski]

Poles, show what kind of patriots you really are. We have had free Poland for so many years and we cannot deal with such a barbaric memento of stalin's genocide.
How many more years will this monument of the Soviet plague stand on our land and scare Poles with stalinism?
Those who oppose the idea of demolishing this object are not Poles but traitors to our homeland.
For a long time Poles suffered for these unwanted gifts of the Soviet vassal who brought us to our knees and made us slaves.
LET NO "souvenir" AFTER THIS BARBARIAN SYSTEM BE LONGER IN OUR COUNTRY!

[wojtekrogalski]

As a youth, about 13-14 i joined a sail club, we build a sail boats inside the palace, safe to say it was 50 years ago, communist still rule, sadly...

[DS-vxwf]

views and building are cool, but overall the museum is average at best.