The new Illustrated Warsaw Calendar for 2024 is now available for pre-sale! More at www.innawarszawa.pl —— The Palace of Culture and Science was built in the early 1950s, when the politically mandated method was socialist realism. The Soviets built it in a way they had tested in Moscow, but they gave it a national form. Why in this place, why then, who built the Palace of Culture and Science and the Parade Grounds and with what money? Patronite https://patronite.pl/mikolajkrupa 00:00 Introduction 01:44 Who invented the Palace of Culture? 07:13 Soviet aid 09:23 Location 15:27 What is the new Palace supposed to look like? 26:55 Construction 43:41 Eastern Wall 45:19 Interiors 53:23 Sculptures 56:26 Parade Square 01:01:45 Opening and thaw 01:07:00 Congress Hall 01:11:23 1989 01:15:41 Millennium Clock 01:16:54 Myths and legends 01:18:36 Conclusion Bibliography: Aleksandra Sumorok. "Social Realist Cultural Centers from the Interior. Architecture of Happiness?", no. Studia z architektury nowoczesna 6/2018 (2018): 167–87. "Polish Socialist Realism? Socialist Realism in Poland? Relationships of Polish and Soviet Architecture in the Years 1949–1956: Some Research Remarks." Art of Eastern Europe, 2014. Bartłomiej Krynicki and Anna Pawlikowska-Piechotka. "65th Anniversary of the Swimming Pool at the Youth Palace in Warsaw". MAZOWSZE Regional Studies, 2020. Bogusz Anna and Alfred Funkiewicz. Construction of the Palace of Culture and Science. State Scientific Publishing House, 1957. warszawa.wyborcza.pl. "Whose Friendship is this? Today the famous sculpture from the Palace of Culture is arrested". Accessed October 27, 2022. https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa.... Dariusz Bartoszewicz. "Plac Defilad - 20 Years of the History of the Fall of the Center of Warsaw". warszawa.wyborcza.pl. Accessed October 24, 2022. https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa.... Deyan Sudjic and Agnieszka Rasmus-Zgorzelska. The Building Complex: The Architecture of Power. Warsaw: Centrum Architektury Foundation, 2015. Grzegorz Kuba. "Marszałkowska Street in Warsaw in the First Years after World War II". Studia i Materiały, no. 1 (10) (2019). Kazimierz Tymiński. "Issues of Moscow's Skyscrapers in the Light of Statements by the Soviet Press". Architektura, no. 2 (52) (1952). Kinga Nędza-Sikoniowska. "The Palace of Culture and Science in the Semiosphere of Warsaw Twenty Years after the Fall of the USSR", 2012. Łukasz Burchacki. "A Brief History of the Construction of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw — Known and Unknown Facts". Wieki Stare i Nowe, no. 9(14) (2015). Marek Hendrykowski. "The Temple of the New Faith". Kwartalnik Filmowy, no. 92 (2015). Michał Murawski. The Palace Complex: The Social Life of a Stalinist Skyscraper in Capitalist Warsaw. Edited by Ewa Klekot. Warsaw: Museum of Warsaw, 2015. Waldemar Baraniewski and Błażej Pindor. Palace in Warsaw. First edition. Warsaw: Raster Foundation, 2014. Werner Huber. "Stalin's Shadow." In Who Will Reclaim Plac Defilad? Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2017. Włodarczyk, Wojciech. Socialist Realism: Polish Art in the Years 1950-1954. 1st National Edition. Cracow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1991.