The technology exposition in Paris in 1937 was much vaulted by Nazi Germany and Communist Russian and looking at their work the similarities in the ‘strong looking working man’ with chiselled chins and powerful arms carrying hammers and shovels. The rectangular sharp edged buildings were even worse with their anodyne flatness broken by vertical crenellations and a poverty of windows. Their ideas were cold, lustreless and anyone with an smidge of an eye would have been revolted by them … but it seems millions loved the starkness.
Buildings and statues tell you everything about a people.
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