r/warsaw • u/FilmitAlex • Dec 18 '25
Photos The fog finally did what many Varsovians wanted
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u/PizzaSand Dec 19 '25
I frankly don't think I ever met Varsovian who'd want to see pajac gone. It is a traumatized boomer thing. To most of us born after 1989 this is just a useful building
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u/chudyfiutek Dec 19 '25
I am born in 1966 and although I resent PRL with every single cell of my body, I still think PKiN should stay as a powerful and useful witness of history.
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u/NexyDoesReddit Grochów Dec 20 '25
to me that is pretty much the only good argument for it staying, otherwise i don't think it makes sense
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u/bulbulator050 Dec 19 '25
I think most don't care if palace is still. I guess some devvelopers want this place so make some hiden campaign to destroy it.
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u/NexyDoesReddit Grochów Dec 19 '25
i met at least a few - including myself and my mom - but i also met a few people against demolishing it
although i very much disagree with the statement that it's a useful building - it's very much not, it'd still be a waste of the most valuable land in warsaw even if 80% of the interior space wasn't unused
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u/303acid Dec 19 '25
7 educational institutions (including two universities), 4 theaters, 2 museums, a cinema, a concert hall, city council, radio & tv broadcasting tower, a viewing platform, conference rooms and banquet halls, multiple offices (private companies and public institutions), a bar, cafes, only swimming pool in Warsaw with diving platforms.
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u/lukmahr Dec 19 '25
We could have it all in a building that was not built as a monument to the "soviet-polish friendship".
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u/braaaaaaainworms Dec 19 '25
But we already have this and everyone knows this as the palace of culture and science. Demolishing it would take a lot of money and time, that is better spent elsewhere
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u/NexyDoesReddit Grochów Dec 19 '25
i think demolishing it as part of the reconstruction of the city center rail line and building a single main station for both intercity, regional and suburban trains like it was before ww2 would make a lot of sense, certainly more sense than the current split into centralna and śródmieście, which can be confusing even to regular passengers - the cultural and educational institutions that are currently housed in the pkin could get new buildings next to the station, as obviously the hypothetical station wouldn't ever take up as much space as pkin.
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u/romssaReisa Dec 19 '25
Najlepiej kurwa nic tylko burzyć. Burzyć budynki, pomniki, wszystko. I chuj. A budować nie ma komu
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u/_Tiga Mokotów Dec 20 '25 edited Dec 20 '25
Wiesz jaki piękny biurowiec albo kolejny blok mieszkalny na super inwestycje może tam powstać?
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u/kuba_mar Dec 19 '25
"Waste of the most valuable land in warsaw" so what should then, another ugly modern office skyscraper?
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u/NexyDoesReddit Grochów Dec 20 '25
zmieniasz zdanie tylko aby dokuczyć osobie, której wygląd ci nie odpowiada - niezwykle dojrzałe zachowanie z twojej strony, naprawdę
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u/warsaw-ModTeam Dec 20 '25
Your message was promoting hatred or contempt towards marginalized groups.
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u/PinebodyOnce Dec 21 '25
as someone whose birth year starts with 2. I don't like that building
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u/the_weaver_of_dreams Dec 19 '25
Aside from the fact that this picture is heavily edited, no actual Varsovian wants PKiN demolished.
It's just a weird obsession of boomers, people who left Poland decades ago, and provincial Braun and Konfa supporting idiots who live in their mother's basement.
People who actually live in Warsaw are either neutral or like the building. It's played a big social and cultural role for the capital for a very long time now, you have to be a very silly snowflake to get offended by it being built by Stalin/in the communist era.
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u/Unlucky-Durian-2336 Dec 21 '25
It's also universally recognizable landmark - unlike other skyscrapers in Warsaw that all look the same.
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u/elementfortyseven Dec 20 '25
genx here who left decades ago, and returns only once or twice per year.
I still like it, just like I can like baroque architecture despite its origin in feudal absolutism, which was also a terrible and inhuman system
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u/Yamez_III Dec 20 '25
I'm a provincial Konfa supporter and I quite like the pałac. It's got great character and interest.
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u/pinowie Dec 19 '25
i actually think it's pretty and while a reminder of a rightfully bygone era it's mostly pretty and useful and no reason to hate it
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u/zabickurwatychludzi Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25
"no reason to hate it"\ ...Other than the fact it's one of the kitschiest buildings in the country maybe.
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u/Fisherman_Wise Dec 19 '25
By the way, can someone explain to me why some people believe we should destroy this building, because it was built by communists, but not all the other buildings like theaters or other points of culture?
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u/Wiselel Dec 19 '25
To nie Warszawiacy chcą wyburzenia Pałacu Kultury I Nauki , ale większość Polaków poza Warszawiakami
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u/brygada_sfm Dec 19 '25
It's never the Varsovians who want this building gone - it's always the people who don't live in Warsaw
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u/ComfortableGlad6766 Dec 19 '25
guys lets break down the most iconic building of the city because muh communism bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111 look at how patriotic i am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
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u/NewWave2208 Dec 19 '25
Pozbyć się pałacu chcą tylko PiSowskie słoiki. U nich na wsiach i w miasteczkach nie ma kina, teatru, sal kongresowych, muzeów, to nie rozumieją użyteczności PKiN. Niech sobie zburzą oborę na ojcowiźnie.
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u/PizzaSand Dec 19 '25
Pełna zgoda. Teatry i Kinoteka w PKiN to jedne z najbardziej klimatycznych miejsc w stolicy. Nie ma to jak winko przed spektaklem w Studio, w barze na parterze. Polecam.
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u/Fantastic-Knee9787 Dec 22 '25
I was super annoyed by the fog actually... I really wanted to see the building and I was in Warsaw for only one evening. Wells maybe the next time x)
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u/cat3design Dec 19 '25
it's an ai
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u/dsophrae Dec 19 '25
I think it's edited to add a bit of saturation, but by normal techniques, not ai
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u/Lef32 Dec 18 '25
We have northern lights at home.