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commercial centre was built, knowingly anelectronics megastore (Figure 12).Figure 11. Berlin-Mitte, Alexanderplatz, 1966, Dick-Foto-VerlagFigure 12. Berlin-Mitte, Alexanderplatz, 2006http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.deAt the other end of the former East-Berlincentre a new step in the city’s demolishing tookplace: the intensively debated destruction of thePalast der Republik, the communist parliament(Figure 13).for the communist memory comprehension.And while we are just finishing this paperanother Berlin tragically demolition is takingplace: the Berlin wall, the historical, collectivecity-scar is removed in order to give place tocommercial, private “beautification”.But, despite the destructions, Berlin demonstratesan incomparable aptitude to integrate itsscars and transform them in new life-generatorplaces. Thus it still stays as the cultural capitalof 21th century Europe.Moscow and the stylistic indecisionsIn “Project Russia – Architecture after communism”we found a very interesting, althoughexaggerated, quote that describes most of theRussian cities as being totally synonym withsoviet or communist cities: “Russian city =soviet city. There are huge differences betweenRussian cities and European cities. ExceptingSankt Petersburg, the Russian cities of the 19 thcentury were mostly made out of woodenhouses and only a handful of houses, governmentbuildings, churches and monasteries weremade out of stone. This meant that, in time,very few traces of the past will survive, even incities with a history of over a thousand yearsold. But while communism first appeared inRussia before entering Europe, so did the industrializationbegan in Europe and thenextended to Russia. During the civil war, whilethe middle class stated in Central Europe, Russiawas evolving in the form of dictatorial proletarian.This means that the industrializationprocess in Russia took place exclusively duringthe soviet regime. The Russian city is thus thesoviet city.” (Goldhoorn, 2002)Figure 13. Palast der Republik last traces(Google images)This late demolition raised huge protest of theyounger and older generations that were asking357Figure 14. Development plans for Moscow proposed byLe Corbusier and E. May (Quilici, 1976, p. 269)Moscow development, much older than thecommunist era, was marked, during the totalita-