野兽派风格的酒店，前卫的纪念碑和未来派的电视塔：来自东欧集团的稀有和未公开的经典明信片

野兽派风格的混凝土旅馆，未来主义的电视塔，工人的英雄雕像——这套苏联时期的明信片通过其建筑物和纪念碑记录了东欧集团无与伦比的景观。这些明信片中穿插着当时**人物的名言，这些话既支撑又混淆了图像中呈现的意识形态。

与我们今天习惯看到的被遗弃和被毁的苏联帝国的照片相比，这些明信片描绘的场景宣扬了共产主义的光明未来：社会住房，文化宫殿和同志纪念碑。它们的历史可以追溯到20世纪60年代至20世纪80年代，提供了对当时社会和建筑价值的怀旧而又深刻的洞察力，是我们研究汽车，人，当然还有建筑物的一个窗口。这些明信片经当局批准，旨在向世界展示共产主义生活的模样。

Brutalist hotels, avant-

garde monuments and futurist TV towers: rare and previously unpublished vintage postcards from the Eastern Bloc

Brutal concrete hotels, futurist TV towers, heroic statues of workers―this collection of Soviet-era postcards documents the uncompromising landscape of the Eastern Bloc through its buildings and monuments. These are interspersed with quotes from prominent figures of the time, which both support and confound the ideologies presented in the images.

In contrast to the photographs of a ruined and abandoned Soviet empire we are accustomed to seeing today, the scenes depicted here publicize the bright future of communism: social housing blocks, palaces of culture and monuments to comradeship. Dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, they offer a nostalgic yet revealing insight into social and architectural values of the time, acting as a window through which we can examine cars, people and, of course, buildings. These postcards, sanctioned by the authorities, were intended to show the world what living in communism looked like.

Instead, this postcard propaganda inadvertently communicates other messages: outside the House of Political Enlightenment in Yerevan, the flowerbed reads "Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union"; in Novopolotsk, art-school pupils paint plein air, their subject a housing estate; at the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute students stroll past a 16-foot-tall concrete hammer and sickle. These postcards are at once sinister, funny, poignant and surreal.