"They've been tearing down the communist buildings".
Early poems praised Lenin and young communists building a steel works.
In Romania's many drab communist or post-communist building blocks, these small outside areas can feel like a bit of a refuge.
In works from Brasília's crown-shaped cathedral to the undulating French Communist party building in Paris, Niemeyer shunned the steel-box structures of many modernist architects, finding inspiration in nature's crescents and spirals.
Particularly for older Poles, who remember the years it took to complete just one subway station in the Communist 1980s, building this and three other new stations in just two years is evidence of what a good thing the European Union can be.
Jiang first encounters Mao when she travels to Yenan, where the Communists are building a new base.
Elsewhere, remnants of a Roman wall built around A.D. 15 share a block with boxy Communist office buildings and Art Nouveau mansions from Austro-Hungarian times.
It was classic crime thriller stuff – high wire fences, lights glowing dimly in a railway yard, the Bulgarian flag flying from a forbidding, communist-era building bristling with antennas.
The Communist Party of Brazil said, "We are very impressed by the efforts exerted by the Vietnamese people and Communists in building socialism in line with national development.
The Rotunda debate highlighted the problems surrounding many Communist-era buildings, especially those constructed in the 1960s and 70s.
