I think House of the Soviets has been destroyed by now too
As much as I hate what the Soviet Union did to our country, you’ve got to admit they did a good job of restoring so many buildings. I was really impressed with the old town in Warsaw
I actually never knew the Malbork castle was rebuilt, that’s crazy
Malbork is a VERY bad example here. Yeah, sure, we’ve rebuilt the castle. But you know that there was a whole medieval old town in Malbork? A whole quarter of historical buildings. Destroyed during WW2, up to 80% of it. Almost nothing of it was rebuilt. Even worse, most of the bricks from that place were transported and used to rebuilt Warsaw, instead of bringing MAlbork to its former glory. Today, apart from a few old buildings, there’s nothing left from that historical site.
Sure, it’s great we’ve brought the castle back, it’s still better than nothing. But we’ve lost A LOT of history, not only in Malbork.
But I’m not quick to judge people deciding on that just after the war. It’s not like we’ve done it – it was Germany’s decision to START THE F___NG WAR and then use bunch of these towns as fortifications against Russians. And just after the war we were crushed and poor as f_ck. I don’t blame people that they weren’t all about historical accuracy, when they just needed roofs over their heads.
I’m from GdaÅ„sk. Just compare our old town to that of Królewiec across the bay.
Story of Malbork is quite amazing. I highly recommend visiting it (Gdańsk Airport). Whole story about this castle is great. And people who were rebuilding it were a madmans.
I think a better example of Polish activities involving German monuments would be Neudeck Palace, formerly known as Little Versailles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neudeck_Palace
Eh, most of poland wasn’t rebult that great tbh. Look at warsaw.
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I think House of the Soviets has been destroyed by now too
As much as I hate what the Soviet Union did to our country, you’ve got to admit they did a good job of restoring so many buildings. I was really impressed with the old town in Warsaw
I actually never knew the Malbork castle was rebuilt, that’s crazy
Malbork is a VERY bad example here. Yeah, sure, we’ve rebuilt the castle. But you know that there was a whole medieval old town in Malbork? A whole quarter of historical buildings. Destroyed during WW2, up to 80% of it. Almost nothing of it was rebuilt. Even worse, most of the bricks from that place were transported and used to rebuilt Warsaw, instead of bringing MAlbork to its former glory. Today, apart from a few old buildings, there’s nothing left from that historical site.
Sure, it’s great we’ve brought the castle back, it’s still better than nothing. But we’ve lost A LOT of history, not only in Malbork.
But I’m not quick to judge people deciding on that just after the war. It’s not like we’ve done it – it was Germany’s decision to START THE F___NG WAR and then use bunch of these towns as fortifications against Russians. And just after the war we were crushed and poor as f_ck. I don’t blame people that they weren’t all about historical accuracy, when they just needed roofs over their heads.
I’m from GdaÅ„sk. Just compare our old town to that of Królewiec across the bay.
Story of Malbork is quite amazing. I highly recommend visiting it (Gdańsk Airport). Whole story about this castle is great. And people who were rebuilding it were a madmans.
I think a better example of Polish activities involving German monuments would be Neudeck Palace, formerly known as Little Versailles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neudeck_Palace
Eh, most of poland wasn’t rebult that great tbh. Look at warsaw.
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