Some cool photo images:
Image by fusion-of-horizons
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Biserica Mihai Vodă, fosta Mănăstire Mihai Vodă, Bucuresti
St. Nicholas - Mihai Voda Church [former Mihai Voda Monastery], Bucharest, Romania
finished in 1594 [with a major restoration in the 1940s]
www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/en/Mi...
www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/en/Mi...
ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%83n%C4%83stirea_Mihai_Vod%C4%83
One of several Bucharest churches moved from their original location during the communist dictatorship and dumped behind new highrise buildings.
After the devastating earthquake of 1977 Nicolae Ceausescu realized that he can remodel Bucharest on a large scale. An area larger than historic Venice [250 hectares] was demolished to make way for a new administrative center. In total 27 orthodox churches, 6 synagogues and 3 protestant churches were demolished all over the town during that time. After a unique, brave and singular protest of several historians only 7 historically important churches were "saved" by relocation behind large buildings, to make them "invisible". The translation was technically done by first pouring a reenforced concrete foundation underneath the church and then slowly moving it to the new location on rails.
People used to joke back then that Bucharest was the only city in the world to have its own unique traffic sign: CAUTION, CROSSING CHURCHES [like the deer crossing sign]
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Ceauşima [Ceausescu+Hiroshima]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceau%C5%9Fima
Ceauşima ("Ceaushima") is a vernacular word construction in Romanian, sarcastically linking former communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu to Hiroshima. This portmanteau term was sometimes coined in the 1980s to describe the huge urban areas of Bucharest that Ceauşescu ordered torn down, comparing the results with the nuclear attack on Hiroshima.
Statism [etatism]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statism
Architecture and Power
Arhitectura și Puterea
[1993 Romanian documentary about Bucharest from 1930s to 1980s]
youtu.be/vuyoRpmPnZU [trailer]
youtu.be/hsCXGcj3dFM
www.imdb.com/title/tt0759903/
THE SOVIET STORY [2008 documentary]
www.sovietstory.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soviet_Story
www.imdb.com/title/tt1305871/
Nineteen Eighty-Four [George Orwell]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/
Brazil [1985 movie]
www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
