Like a Klingon prison

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how long before this colossal blot on the landscapemeets the same fate as frump's atlantic city eyesore

‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library​

Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum?

The Egyptians had their pyramids. The Anglo-Saxons had their barrows. And the Americans have their presidential libraries – the chief difference being that the leaders the US venerates are usually still alive at the opening.

Lacking a royal family or a state religion, the US presidency has swelled to fill the void, transforming over the decades into a national personality cult, complete with its own secular temples to these powerful men. The latest pharaonic edifice is about to open on Chicago’s south side, where it looms on the skyline as a towering totem to the 44th president, Barack Obama. He might have seemed humble in office, but in his post-presidential, Netflix-producing afterlife, Obama has erected the largest, costliest and most audacious complex of them all. Behold the $850m Obamalisk – or, as it sometimes feels morbidly like, the Obamausoleum.

‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library

Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum?

www.theguardian.com

comrade stalin
moscow

 

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Gee.....how original.
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Ruskies SHITCAN All Remembrances Of Stalin!!!
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"After Stalin’s death and Nikita Khrushchev’s rise to power, the Soviets wanted to part with the dreary, totalitarian past. At the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, Khrushchev delivered the famous speech denouncing Stalin, his personality cult, and his dictatorship. Demolishing of Stalin’s monuments began all over USSR. It became clear that he should be taken out of the Mausoleum – because Stalin had betrayed Lenin’s ideas."

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Stalin's current mausoleum!
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