KGB headquarters
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When the soviet union crumbled when i was a child, all the pictures on TV i remember were people pulling down statues of Lenin amidst great celebration. That sort of attempt to bury the past never seemed to happen here in Belarus. The old history of the Soviet era are are least here in a superficial way. Whether it be the statues or the very soviet ìfunctional brickî style of architecture. In stark contrast is the modern Belarus that grown out of this. To take that contrast to an extreme, In Minsk, There’s a McDonald’s right next door to KGB headquarters.
A few pics follow
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