From the vysotki of Stalinist Moscow and the TV tower of Communist Prague; from Mussolini’s EUR and Hitler’s Westwall; to Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie and Charlie Chaplin’s Great Dictator, we bring you our un-redacted Dictator issue. Can the architecture built under Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini be expediently forgotten? Do the buildings of these Dictators owe a debt to socially progressive Modernism? Can we really define such a thing as Dictator architecture and how has it influenced subsequent generations of architects? Have we been tinged by a touch of Ostalgia and should we take heed of a little man with a small moustache? The latest issue of The Modernist goes in search of the Dictators’ influence on our modern world.
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