St. Petersburg
We are at the dock in St. Petersburg ...we’ll go into town tonight to see the Ballet. In the meantime, take a look at the Soviet-style block apartments. Some are the same as they were when the wall fell in 1989;
others have been painted.
It does not matter, the block— is the block— is the block.
On the other hand, there is a piece of zoomy architecture seen from the dock. Look at the Lakhta Center—the tallest building in Europe at over 1500 feet—the 13th tallest in the world. It’s the headquarters for Gazprom (a Russian petroleum company). The difference between communism and capitalism is amazing!
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