Comments on: Icebound, long-abandoned Communist flying saucer in the cliffs of Bulgaria

By: Adam Rozenhart

Adam Rozenhart — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:52:00 +0000

Crazy, I have a colleague at work from Bulgaria. When I emailed her the link to this post, she responded: “Hahaha – This is where I was born. My town is 20 km from that place. We used to play there a lot as kids:) ”

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:46:00 +0000

Every Olympic stadium ever.

By: Brad Zimmerman

Brad Zimmerman — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:14:00 +0000

For some reason I agree with you, handsome.

By: gorfulator

gorfulator — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:45:00 +0000

I was thinking it looked 60′s James bond-esque

Pinewood studios east!

By: altaylor

altaylor — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:57:00 +0000

When they got it into their head and unlimbered the rubber truncheons, commies could really pull off the gigantic edifice, massive dam, or huge underground military lair.

But all things decay. That’s why the intrepid photogs at English-Russia have some of the best photo essays of mouldering Soviet stuff ever. Love that site

By: Brad H.

Brad H. — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:37:00 +0000

Wow, looks incredible with the frost. I hope to be that way next year. I’ll take some halva and lukanka up there and have a picnic in the middle of it.

By: MarlboroTestMonkey7

MarlboroTestMonkey7 — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:32:00 +0000

Join me there at 10pm for a game of Quintet

By: JB

JB — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:08:00 +0000

Vincennces, Indiana – Conquest of the West monument is the only monument of its kind out side of D.C.

http://www.nps.gov/gero/historyculture/memorial.htm

By: LightningRose

LightningRose — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:08:00 +0000

I vote for an indoor “6 Flags Over Bulgaria” theme park.

By: HahTse

HahTse — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:46:00 +0000

Every skyscraper ever.

By: sean

sean — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:50:00 +0000

God, it’s strange and beautiful. Like something from a future that never occurred.

By: Luciano Medina

Luciano Medina — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:37:00 +0000

The Statue of Liberty.

By: TWX

TWX — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:24:00 +0000

This may be a dumb question, but am I simply not seeing equivalent grandiose monuments dedicated specifically to the ideology of revolution in democratic or capitalist nations that are somehow state-sponsored?

I know there’s Mount Rushmore, and there are some fairly impressive structures in Washington DC. I can’t, off the top of my head, think of any others in the United States outside of the purpose-built capitol city. It seems like the Communists and Facists both have always gone crazy building megastructures to celebrate themselves or their ideologies, even though the ideologies don’t seem to last.

By: TWX

TWX — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:18:00 +0000

There’s a certain irony, suggesting taking what was arguably a religious icon of economic communism and turning it into a religious icon of economic capitalism…

By: Eat Bacon

Eat Bacon — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:12:00 +0000

Looks like it belongs on Hoth

By: xkot

xkot — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:02:00 +0000

Any Bulgarians reading this: please, PLEASE call UNESCO immediately!

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:53:00 +0000

Pictures of this place were floating around photoblogs a few months ago. Looking awesomely bleak in the snow, it strikes me as a lost opportunity for great Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos, this would have been an ideal setting for a sequence in his epic “Ulysses’ Gaze”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_Gaze

By: planettom

planettom — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:40:00 +0000

I feel like this is a level in a First Person Shooter game I played.

Or that one level in the movie INCEPTION.

By: Daryl Smith

Daryl Smith — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:23:00 +0000

A couple of HDR images of the building here:
http://www.chromasia.com/galleries/1010270626.php
http://www.chromasia.com/galleries/1011011600.php

By: Tami Chase

Tami Chase — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:58:00 +0000

It looks like the Russian’s lair from the movie Spies Like Us :D

By: Daneel

Daneel — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:10:00 +0000

Watch out for Blofeld’s Angels of Death!

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:32:00 +0000

That thing will be dust in a couple of hundred years.

By: morkl

morkl — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:08:00 +0000

In a couple of hundred years, these buildings will be the equivalent of the ancient jungle cities of India or Mexico. Explorers will discover them and be amazed by the wonders of this long lost civilization.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:22:00 +0000

its very nice country, you know

By: Ivan Dimitrov

Ivan Dimitrov — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:13:00 +0000

@twitter-97954989:disqus on the contrary, there is a road leading to it. Once restored it can be used for concerts, parties, exhibitions or made into a giant mall.

By: kambo

kambo — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:36:00 +0000

It’s awesome but it’s falling appart for 22 years now. It’s too remote to be used for anything, just bringing materials up there for renovations will cost too much to be worth it.

By: miasm

miasm — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:55:00 +0000

hmm, with suitable renovations, this might be an appropriate venue for TED 2023.

By: IsoTop

IsoTop — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:44:00 +0000

Unless you lived in such regime. (Or read 1984)

By: ultranaut

ultranaut — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:52:00 +0000

I want to live in the secret lair underneath.

By: Flashman

Flashman — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:14:00 +0000

In a few, very specific, areas, totalitarianism is awesome.