World Bank Building, Asmara

The World Bank Building of Asmara, Eritrea is a large Italian villa built in 1938 which was bought by the World Bank to house its headquarters in that country. The architecture of the building is a mixture of futurist and art deco architectural styles.

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Asmara: The Frozen City, Jochen Visscher and Stefan Boness (Jovis, 2007)

gollark: (unless you can somehow strongly decouple them? it would be interesting if that could be done somehow)

gollark: You can, I'm sure, just complain that all examples of that aren't REAL communism. But really, centralized economic power leads to centralized political power.

gollark: But *persecuting* individuals instead of just being broken and failing them... well, there are probably examples, I just don't know how exactly to find them.

gollark: Well, "it starves people" is obvious and well-documented.

gollark: I have no idea where to look up specifically "people for whom communism has been bad".

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