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Pstrąże, an abandoned village/settlement in southwestern Poland, taken by the Soviet army in 1945. In 1992, they left it abandoned and ruined. Image: Qbanez via wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Europe’s Cold War Heritage: Poland’s “rightfully bygone times”

International team tries to restore Bulgaria’s communist-era ‘flying saucer’

Jiu Valley consisted of six mining towns and surrounding villages.

Romania’s abandoned mining valley to be a cultural centre

Pink Tank , a Soviet monument commemorating Liberation after World War II was painted pink to symbol liberation from Soviet troops in 1991 by David Cerny.

A lesson from Eastern Europe on how to deal with problematic statues

Kuba Snopek says that these modern churches are “the most distinctive Polish contribution to the architectural heritage of the 20th Century."

The eye-popping churches of Communist Poland

Kukës as seen from the north across the lake.

Bunker mentality: Could this relic of Albanian communist paranoia become a tourist attraction?