Can you guess what this scary Soviet object is supposed to represent:
A bus stop?
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Someone literally bending over backwards?
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A toddler leaning forward on his arms?
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The crouching figure of capitalist imperialism?
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A child? Someone scrubbing a floor? A beach chair?
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I think I know …. but I’ll let others guess. While similar weirdness isn’t part of the Polish landscape (too much cement!) I remember some similar strange structures in Eastern Hungary (miskolc).
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I thought it was a bus stop.
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It looks like a huge newspaper Pravda.
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To me it looks like a cat crouching. Is this a bus stop?
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A bus stop, but it’s supposed to remind you of a gymnast.
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Since this was likely built by the Russians (and it’s obviously kosher to insult the Russian mentality on this website), isn’t it entirely possible that the builders didn’t have enough imagination to consider this structure ANYTHING AT ALL except a simple bus stop?
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Last summer while visiting Brooklyn, I serediptiously came upon a photographic exhibit of many such “creatively” designed bus stops, no two alike. Like this one (and for all I remember, this very structure may have been included in the exhibit), they were all in the middle of nowhere.
Where are the passengers coming and going from? There are no buildings of any kind as far as the eye can see. Are they stops at campsites?
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It is sculpture of a a sprinter at the starting line (I think).
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Yes, it’s a Soviet bus stop. Why it needed to be so huge when it’s in the middle of nowhere is a mystery but I’d guess this has something to do with the weirdness of central planning. A month or a quarter might have been drawing to a close and a plan for the use of concrete needed to be fulfilled, so this could have been the answer.
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Is it weird that I really like it? As a regular bus user, I would love to have a dramatic, postmodern-looking sculpture as a stop. Most bus stops are painfully boring. This would give me something to contemplate as I waited. 🙂
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That’s because you never smelled it. 🙂
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A plane crash…
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Wouldn’t be surprising, eh?
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Please change my spelling to crash, I made a mistake and have no idea how to fix it 🙂
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