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Palace of Parliament (Bucharest)

Description: Palatul Parlamentului in Bucharest, Romania is, one of the world's largest buildings. Its original name was the House ... more

Palace of Parliament (Bucharest) ... of the People (Casa Poporului), but it was renamed (in the post-Communist era) first during the 1989 Revolution with the derogatory name of House of Ceauşescu and then as the Palace of the Parliament. However, to this day, most of the Romanians retain the old name and call it Casa Poporului.

Newest Review: ... on, ordinary Romanians were suffering. They were hungry because Ceausescu, eager to maintain a high international profile, was exporting most of the food Romania was producing. In order to try to clear Romania’s foreign debt there were planned power outages. He even decided it was not only more economical to clear the countryside of peasants - whom he saw as a drain on resources - but he ... more

... actually planned to destroy hundreds of villages and have the inhabitants resettled in the cities where he envisaged them working in factories that would be the envy of the rest of the world; that is the ones he allowed to stay - in Transylvania he planned t...more

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Palace of Parliament (Bucharest): A Palace with Promise (2017 words)
by - written on 09/07/07 (Very useful, 149 readings)
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Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin….the twentieth century certainly had its share of unpleasant and tyrannous leaders. Romania’s Nicolae Ceausescu must surely rank near the top of the list - if there were league tables for nastiness then he would likely be in a medal position. Tales of his evil deeds abound but the Romanian capital, Bucharest, is home to the project that embodied his bizarre and frightening ideas - the Palace of the People. In terms of surface area it is the second largest building in the world, in volume the third largest. It is not just its size, though, that makes it astonishing; millions of Leu were poured into the project while Romania received ... Read the complete review