That’s about all the praise I will ever give the Soviet Union–I’m not a fan of totalitarian regimes, no matter how much they claim to care about well-being of the proletariat. But man, these abandoned Soviet monuments in the former Yugoslavia are awesome.
Soviet Monuments Look Cool
Brian Spears
Brian Spears is Senior Poetry Editor of The Rumpus and the author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011). His poem “Upon Reading That Andromeda Will One Day Devour Triangulum and Come For Us Next” was featured in Season 9 of Motion Poems.