Now, 42 years later, a regional governor has announced that the House of Soviets will finally come down. “It’s like a monument to the Soviet Union we should keep,” said Yevgenia Kryazheva, a waitress at Tyotka Fischer, a German restaurant with windows overlooking the House of Soviets. After the Soviet Union captured the territory from the Nazis during World War II, about 80% of the structures were in ruins. Vadim Chaly, a professor of philosophy at Baltic Federal University, said it was a telling solution to the city’s decades-old House of Soviets problem. They want a copy of the Soviet Union in many senses but with a few changes.

Source: bd News24 February 16, 2021 09:11 UTC