In this photo taken Monday, July 20, 2015, cars are parked in front of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland. The building was a gift from Soviet leader Josef Stalin and is ...

Scenes that would have been unfathomable a decade ago are proliferating across Poland. ... in the shadow of the Palace of Culture and Science, Stalin’s infamous gift to the Polish people.

He built the Joseph Stalin Palace of Culture and Science instead. Today the Palace is one of Poland's most recognisable sights and has starred on the cover of Vogue.

Fly over Warsaw, Poland’s dynamic capital, where the meticulously reconstructed Old Town, the towering Palace of Culture and ...

Designed by Thomas Phifer, the National Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw is a building that demands a second look. Behind its smooth white concrete facade, an astonishingly light and diverse interior ...

Inside the abandoned labyrinth hidden under Stalin’s skyscraper palace Ben ... The private retreat lies directly beneath the parade square at The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland.

Warsaw's Stalin-era skyscraper, the Palace of Culture and Science, is 50 years old on Friday. But the gift from Josef Stalin to then communist Poland is also one of the country's most controversial ...

The Palace of Culture and Science casts a long, spiky shadow over Warsaw’s Plac Defilad (Parade Square). Europe’s biggest public square is brutalised by the vast mass of this “gift” from ...

Now home to museums, cinemas, theatres and likewise cultural institutes, it was built under Soviet rule to imitate the palaces of Russia, a so-called “gift” that was known as Stalin's palace.

Poland has been ravaged by brutal conflicts for centuries, and the vicious if mostly bloodless culture wars of today have not spared it. When the museum opened after 20 years of lurching back-and ...

The Palace of Culture and Science, built in 1952 above the rubble caused by Nazi bombs, was commissioned by Joseph Stalin as “a gift of the Soviet people for the Poles.” ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Some Poles liken the skyscraper to an elephant in lace underpants. ... Unwanted gift from Stalin, Warsaw Palace of Culture turns 60. Staff Writer. The Columbus Dispatch.