North Korea: Workers’ Party Foundation Monument

Want some more brutalist socialist architecture? Here’s the monument dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea and its leadership of the Korean people. The classic Soviet hammer’n’sickle is supplemented with a calligraphy brush to symbolize the union of workers, peasants and intelligentsia (clearly Soviet Union didn’t give a crap about intelligentsia). The massive stone pillars are 50 meters high (50th anniversary) and the number of concrete slams in the monument is the same as Kim Il Sung’s date of birth (although North Korea restarted the calendar with the first year of the country’s creation). Even the residential buildings around were summer epically built to complement the composition in red color and slogans of “ever victorious”. The dejavu feeling is getting overpowering!