Comment by _0nac
7 years ago
I was at the Hoover Dam recently, and I was struck by how Socialist Realist (read: Soviet) much of the original art looks:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/GTQxcVtVKhgTURsG9
My favorite structure is probably the improbably Star Wars/Tatooine flavored parking garage though!
That's how a lot of stuff from that era looked in the US. The roaring 20s and the bummer-30s had lots of stuff like that. Maybe you just have an incorrect mental 1:1 mapping between stuff popular 100 years ago everywhere and the Soviets?
Well, me, too. Apparently the Soviets adopted the blocky, "science is the progress of mankind toward a brighter future for you!" theme from us and used it so well, that I attribute such design elements to the Soviets exclusively.
Or maybe it was a global design language, that the Soviets just kept using longer and/or used more because they were building a _lot_ of things during the period of it's heyday.