In Central Asia, the Soviet Past Goes to Oblivion

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From monumental mosaics to Lenin's statues, the capitals of Central Asia turn the page of Soviet architecture, sacrificed on the altar of modernization and national construction. In Dushanbe, the Tajik capital, a gigantic fresco celebrating the cosmonauts and engineers of the Soviet Union still adorns the facade of a building. This work is promised to [...] The article Central Asia erases the remains of the Soviet era first appeared on the Singu…

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In Central Asia, for a decade, the trend has been not to preserve but to destroy countless emblematic architectural buildings and monumental Soviet artistic works decorating them: mosaics, frescoes or sculptures. On the facade of a building in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, a huge mosaic representing cosmonauts and engineers boasts the achievements of the ...