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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Kuba Jaworowski

70 years on and Stalin’s ‘gifted’ skyscraper still looms over this Polish city

A drone view shows Warsaw’s skyline at night, with illuminated skyscrapers and the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland - (Reuters)

Seventy years after Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin “gifted” Warsaw its towering Palace of Culture and Science, the skyscraper at the heart of Poland's capital still stirs strong feelings.

The palace – which is marking the 70th anniversary of its opening on 22 July 1955, when Poland was part of the Soviet-led communist Eastern Bloc – was conceived by Stalin as a symbol of Soviet domination and initially bore his name.

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