Peoples' Palace of Romania

Ceausescu's creation

I thought Romanians have destroyed such awful memories of their sad past. At least I'd have done. That said is very interesting the absence of perspective distortion here. I wonder if the credits are either of you post-prod work or of a tilt&shift lens. I do not rate, because I'm not able to rate the picture without rating the palace! :-)

 

Mauro

I shot this with a wide angle lens (11-18) and did do a perspective distortion adjustment in PS to square it up. Despite the sordid history of this structure, many other notable architectural monuments have wretched histories. Versailles, among others, come to mind.

Thank-you for the technical details. You did a very good job.

 

As far as we speak about architecture, this is not a "notable architectural monuments" but only an ugly anachronistic building. And this, independently by any political judgement or opinion.

 

Mauro

Peoples' Palace turned into Parliament's Palace now-a-days. It has no shine or splendor, but memories are good to keep so we will not forget the mistakes of the past. This is one of many grand ideas of Ceausescu the renegade, but many innocents sweat and died to built this concreet monster and thats why we will keep it to remember and appreciate their effort.

Roxana, I see your point of view and of course I agree with you and I didn't actually expect that the monster have been destroyed, but, should have been it could have been a good point.

 

I do not think that a nation must conserve forever memories, mostly if those memories are full of blood and pain. I think that a people, a nation, the Romanian nation is much greater than its sad memories and I think that the memories of Ceausescu as well as the memories of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Pinochet, Pol Pot, and the like should be cancelled from our mind and from our hearth. This because for them there isn't a punishment more cruel than to be completely forgotten.

 

Up with the new Romania!

 

:-)

 

Mauro