# Abandoned Soviet-Era Building in Bulgaria **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994 "2012-03-07T01:20:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/1 "2012-03-07T01:20:42Z")
I give you … the [Buzludzha monument](http://humanplanet.com/timothyallen/2012/02/buzludzha-buzludja-bulgaria/). Described as “a cross between a flying saucer and Doctor Evil’s hideout perched atop a glorious mountain range.” “Buzludha is Bulgaria’s largest ideological monument to Communism. Designed by architect Guéorguy Stoilov, more than 6000 workers were involved in its 7 year construction including 20 leading Bulgarian artists who worked for 18 months on the interior decoration. A small, universally expected donation from every citizen in the country formed a large portion of the funds required to build this impressive structure that was finally unveiled in 1981 on what was the 1300th anniversary of the foundation of the Bulgarian state.” Man, they just don’t make totalitarian dictatorships like they used to. Even that young whippersnapper in North Korea is already proving a disappointment entertainmentwise. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/2 "2012-03-07T03:05:17Z")
Kim Young Fat doesn’t even have enough food to feed people to work to build something that grand. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/3 "2012-03-07T03:45:17Z")
I want it. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/4 "2012-03-07T05:08:01Z")
Great post! What a totally weird building! Does anybody know the name of the gigantic palace that Roumanian dictator/madman (Ceaucescue) was building in Bucharest, around the time he got overthrown? It was using up most of the Roumanian prodction of concrete, and it was (just like Buzludzsha) fantastically bizarre and ugly. ---
**Author:** ![Escantell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8dc957/32.png) [@Escantell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Escantell)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/5 "2012-03-07T05:11:10Z")
wow… just wow… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/6 "2012-03-07T11:26:40Z")
Wow…Cold War flashbacks. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/7 "2012-03-07T11:46:22Z")
Yowza. For communists, they sure got the [thory of ruin value](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruin_value) down pat. 'place looks like there’d be some Shoggoths running around in the lower levels. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/8 "2012-03-07T12:43:33Z")
Well, that’s a hell of a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/9 "2012-03-07T13:04:41Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Does anybody know the name of the gigantic palace that Roumanian dictator/madman (Ceaucescue) was building in Bucharest, around the time he got overthrown? [Palace of the Parliament.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/10 "2012-03-07T13:09:27Z")
I think it’s quite beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/11 "2012-03-07T15:53:23Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Kim Young Fat doesn’t even have enough food to feed people to work to build something that grand. I think that’s because he eats it all himself. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/12 "2012-03-07T16:33:08Z")
Somehow I see this featured on a future episode of House Hunters International as a “fixer-upper” and it will be bought by a young couple from Milwaukee who want to use it as a yoga studio/hunting lodge. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/13 "2012-03-07T16:49:24Z")
Wow - that’s creepy and awesome at the same time. Thanks for sharing! ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/14 "2012-03-07T16:52:09Z")
I wonder how many Bulgarians dies stripping the copper off the roof? What a stupid waste of meoney. But its not as bad as most Communist-Era dreck archictecture-it looks a lot nicer than most of the stuff that Stalin commissioned. ---
**Author:** ![kirk1168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/15 "2012-03-08T00:59:47Z")
That is the coolest evil-genius lair EVER!!! ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/16 "2012-03-08T01:27:55Z")
I love abandoned, decrepit Soviet-era buildings so much. So enormous and surreal. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/17 "2012-03-08T01:52:24Z")
_My name is Ozymandias, king of kings…_ ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/18 "2012-03-08T03:44:13Z")
I want to live there. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/19 "2012-03-08T03:48:56Z")
I will buy it from you . . . for _one **MEELLion** dollars_!! [music]BA DA DA! BA DA DA![/music] [raises outstretched pinkie to lips] ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994/20 "2012-03-08T04:26:03Z")
Looks like somebody’s been playing around in the third level of Inception. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-soviet-era-building-in-bulgaria/614994.md?page=2)