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Originally Posted by Evilon Doomm
^Why wouldn't he endorse something like that? lol
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Stalin has not planned this building just because he was a megalomaniac or whimsical person. He had a solid reason for everything he has done.
This project was highly symbolic and political, nothing less than "the center of the Universe". Before WWII Stalin had a vision for every single country to become a soviet republic joining Soviet Union which would finally encompass the world being ruled from Moscow. This building would be used for general assembly meetings, kind of communist UN organization. After WWII it was clear that this was not happening, so the plans for such building were first delayed and finally abandoned, but apparently abandoned only after Khruschev came into power.
The other Stalinist scrapers have been built for different (more practical) reasons.