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Moscow
Poland 2018
Russia
Warsaw
Gdansk
Warsaw
Palace of Culture, from the InterContinental
Palace of Culture
Warsaw from Palace of Culture
Vive l'Empereur Napoleon!
Erected in 2011.
Madame Curie
Copernicus
Warsaw Uprising Monument
Warsaw Uprising Monument
Tsarist Citadel, "Execution Gate"
Maurycy Gomulicki Eel (2-16)
Not "Nessie".
Warsaw Rising Museum
Liberator bomber (supply drops)
Warsaw Rising Museum: Gloomy Section on Soviets
Warsaw: Palace and Old Town
Royal Palace (rebuilt)
Palace Courtyard
Palace after WWII
Caesar receiving Pompey's Head
Poseidon!
Warsaw ~1780. Bernardo Bellotto Canaletto.
(A nephew of the great Canaletto)
Sigismund's Column & Old Town
St. John the Baptist Cathedral
St. John the Baptist Cathedral
"Syrenka" Mermaid Statue
Gdansk (née Danzig)
Statue of Poseideon
The god has been dressed in a "Constitution" tee shirt as part of a protest.
Poseidon supports the Constitution!
An awkward fish-tail "fig leaf"
Gdansk Old City
The old Hanseatic Danzig core was loving reconstructed after being mostly flattened in WWII.
Grand Town Hall
Town Hall Fireplace
Cathedral
New construction, retaining some old style.
Great Crane (original 15th c)
Solidarity Museum + 1970 Strike Monument
Solidarity Museum + 1970 Monument
1970 Strikers Monument
Monument detail
Monument detail
Shipyard Gate
Solidarity Museum
Museum: Shipyard room
Statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky being demolished
WWII Museum
WWII Museum
Moscow
Russia