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Inside the old communist utopia on its way to becoming the EU Capital of Culture

As you sit at the rooftop bar of the Congress Hotel in Chemnitz, looking out at the bleak modern cityscape below, you get a good idea of ​​what Western Europe might have looked like if Russia had won the Cold War. Beneath this ugly socialist skyscraper are rows of brutalist apartment blocks – soulless, anonymous,… Read More »