The Palace of the Soviets: The Glorious Moscow Monument that Ended Up as a Swimming Pool

[@megaprojects9649]

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[@warmon6]

Got some audio sync issue in the last 3rd of the video.

[@michaelmayhem350]

Please do a video on the internet and/or TOR (two separate videos not one)

[@jwenting]

Skillshare, teaching people grandiose and impossible to implement ideas, and illegally claiming that only the first 1000 respondents will get a free trial.

[@aceman67]

@@jwenting The phrase says "First 1000 to use the link will get a free trial", it doesn't say that anyone after 1000 won't get a free trial.

[@wmarkwitherspoon]

Starting at about 11:01 your sound and video don't match...

[@bradleyhouse3180]

The last few minutes is like watching an overdubbed kung fu flick.

[@jhfdhgvnbjm75]

I thought it was just my conection, glad I'm not alone :)

[@TitusLeung]

I guess it is not just last few minutes, but two third of the video: the sound and the image are not in sync.

[@trisarahtops3749]

came here for this, I thought my internet was shot lol

[@itarry4]

Yhep. Guess they decided if the Soviets couldn't finish their tower they'd fail to finish the video properly. Some sort of symbol of solidarity comrade! 😉🙄

[@tncorgi92]

I'm no lip reader but something was definitely off...

[@megaprojects9649]

Sorry about the video at the end being all funky. Mildly interesting behind-the-scenes explanation: We had a fix to do in the video (where I screw something up and have to rerecord a section), and I think we must have screwed up the timing on some of the graphics after that was inserted into the video. Then, because I'm such a pro, I'm like: Nahhh, I don't need to proof watch this again, we just inserted a clip! I'm not such a pro ;). Hope you still found this one interesting everyone :)

[@tistedmentality3715]

Megaprojects here's a saying you might have heard at least once. Measure twice, cut once.

[@KonradTheWizzard]

@@tistedmentality3715 ...or in this case the corollary: measure once, cut twice.;)

[@Ethan7s]

If you only took those skillshare classes.

[@Manuel-gu9ls]

@@tistedmentality3715 rectify the mistake before it becomes worse

[@jessetaylor4142]

@@Ethan7s lol

[@MikeMan21070]

Architect: how big do you want your building Soviets: da

[@ColKorn1965]

Да

[@serduncan6933]

A fitting counterpart for this would be a video about Welthauptstadt Germania, the planed capital of nazi Germany. There were some truly massive buildings like the Ruhmeshalle, a dome with a planed hight of 320m.

[@badluck5647]

I think that was done on a Today I Found Out

[@serduncan6933]

@@badluck5647 Really? He has so many videos on different channels that's hard to keep track of what has already been covered

[@rexcorvorum4262]

I would love this on mega projects though

[@Razgar_Voxel]

There is a movie that Rutger Hauer was in called Fatherland that that fictional city was in.

[@RedXlV]

It turns out that even in an alt-history where Germany had won the war, "Welthauptstadt Germania" would've been impossible. The soil of Berlin simply isn't capable of supporting such massive structures.

[@sauvanto9316]

Megaproject: Palace of Simon's KZbin Takeover

[@spritemon98]

I'd approve of that

[@laszlogman2545]

All hail Simon!

[@petarpilipovic3456]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2WWnp2untVjrM0 Here is a suggestion for a future Megaproject..The clip is in English you can have a look.Its about Yugoslavia’s space project and how Tito secretly sold it to Kennedy.The Americans hoped it would help them get dominance in the space race...In the end it turned out to be a piece of shit 😂😂😂

[@tacostuesday7530]

He's good at what he does. Boy with the blaze.

[@orioneverett128]

I'd watch that.

[@Reinforce_Zwei]

Video/Audio desynch after "Requisitioning" around 10:34. Megaprojects video on how you keep having editing errors, eh Simon? XD

[@macuss87]

Simon needs to get Sam on it!

[@niklaslazar3194]

thanks, i thought i had a stroke or something.

[@nisx91]

Skill Share... Probably not the best place to learn video editing after all.

[@kwad3d10]

I thought it might of just been me. Sam is slacking a little LOL. Give him a raise Simon

[@JacobMcG64]

Gonna put him in the basement...

[@donkee011]

How high was that in Michael Jordans?

[@Wppk765]

Milan Donic number one comment! ☝️

[@jccmuir]

At least 2!

[@bladudemovies]

209.54 Michael Jordans Total height 1,362 ft % Michael Jordan height 6.5 ft = 209.54 Michael Jordans

[@CornPopsDood]

@@bladudemovies God damn 🤣. We got a winner guys.

[@Biljoona]

12:18 me reminds of a joke. In early fifties in Moscow, a man on his way to work, took a look at front page of Pravda a the same newsstand every morning but never bought the newspaper. This went on for a quite a long time until the person running the newsstand asked: "What are you hoping the see in the front page?" The man replied: "I'm looking for an obituary." The person running the kiosk said that: "But obituaries aren't published in the front page." To which the man replied: "This one will be!"

[@LordNeuf]

Mega Project Suggestion : The Berlin Airport that just finally opened up.

[@vonfaustien3957]

I think he might have covered that on geographics

[@RhelrahneTheIdiot]

German efficiency boys! German efficiency at it's finest!.

[@spritemon98]

Wait really?

[@menselv7142]

It was too small for all the time it was being built and now that it’s open it’s too big because of Covid-19

[@sayujraphael]

Wait it's actually open now?

[@kentucky_official2440]

I think a good idea is the largest container ship in production. Like it is so hard to think of how big it is. I can't remember the name.

[@AdamIsUrqed]

The CGM Brazil recently visited us in Savannah. It was HUUUUGE. If there's some bigger than that, they must engulf the sea and sky.

[@davidjohansson8739]

@@AdamIsUrqed There are bigger ones. Brazil is 366x51m and the biggest ones are 400x60m IIRC. The problem with making a video of them is that which one do you pick? The top dog changes like month and There are ~30-40 ships in 6-8 different classes that are all around 400x60m

[@RedXlV]

That would be the Maersk Triple E-class container ships.

[@ArdFromRiA]

The interesting fact is that the internal structure of the Palace resembled that of a classical Russian church/temple designs, resembling parts of the temple that was there(now rebuild). So it was a Temple to some degree.

[@roderickwhitehead]

Audio seems desynced at the end for me.

[@miscellaneous_man756]

Same

[@JaelaOrdo]

Same

[@logankleinman7758]

Same

[@jammerzz]

yep. seriously messed with my head for a min

[@ameybirulkar7503]

Same

[@AJ-ut8cz]

Russian hackers definitely edited the audio for this video.

[@Josh-tx8sj]

They might be too busy with the American Election

[@megaprojects9649]

Sorry about the video at the end being all funky. Mildly interesting behind-the-scenes explanation: We had a fix to do in the video (where I screw something up and have to rerecord a section), and I think we must have screwed up the timing on some of the graphics after that was inserted into the video. Then, because I'm such a pro, I'm like: Nahhh, I don't need to proof watch this again, we just inserted a clip! I'm not such a pro ;). Hope you still found this one interesting everyone :)

[@claycountybrian5645]

@@megaprojects9649 PLEASE quit SPAMMING @Megap oh wait nm Carry on 5679 thumbs up!

[@unscthechillofwar7228]

This building is in Red Alert 3, and i have always wondered what it actually was Great video

[@Bro.Michael_E._Moore-32Degree]

Do one on the Detroit masonic temple. It's an incredible building, and still standing. Largest masonic temple in the world. It was designed such that you could have two ballrooms simultaneously occupied underneath a theater and a drill Hall on top of the theater and you wouldn't be able to hear many of the other goings on from any of those rooms.

[@95PurpleHaze]

This video got so out of sync, it became comical.

[@BitchinSpectre]

it's like they learned editing on skill share.

[@megaprojects9649]

Sorry about the video at the end being all funky. Mildly interesting behind-the-scenes explanation: We had a fix to do in the video (where I screw something up and have to rerecord a section), and I think we must have screwed up the timing on some of the graphics after that was inserted into the video. Then, because I'm such a pro, I'm like: Nahhh, I don't need to proof watch this again, we just inserted a clip! I'm not such a pro ;). Hope you still found this one interesting everyone :)

[@95PurpleHaze]

@@megaprojects9649 oh it was still a great video. I actually started laughing the closer it got to the end. Keep up the great content! Love the channel(s) lol

[@Chilly_Billy]

Almost as comical as the idea of this building.

[@calummacdonald2977]

Hey could you do one on the Forth road and rail bridges in Scotland please? They are 3 large bridges very close to each other and showcase three different styles of great bridges.

[@l-b01josefandres44]

lol it's not grand enough and won't guarantee views

[@zsoltsandor3814]

The Palace of the Soviets was not built, but instead the Seven Sisters were, a bunch of Stalinist/Classicist skyscrapers, including the main building of Lomonosov University. This style later became a model for other buildings, including the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, and the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, the latter which is unfinished to this day. There were plans for something in this style in Budapest as well, but that never materialized.

[@charlesxavier77]

Next time The Palace of Parlament from Romania? Or transfagarasan?

[@TwentyNinerR]

Romania's Parliament Palace has been covered in Geographics, if I'm not mistaken

[@anarchyantz1564]

Megaproject Suggestion. Longest deep bore ice core in Antarctica. Took years, loads of drama with it and they found some cool stuff like a fresh water lake under the ice containing previously unknown lifeforms. Would go Well with the other hole projects that are popular Speaking of deep holes, how about the Kidd Mine as well?

[@edhorton3775]

Speaking of deep holes, wonder how my ex is doing 🤔

[@LTCAproductions]

@@edhorton3775 she called me on Halloween again, I think it might become a tradition of hers

[@dominicwaghorn6459]

Mad respect for you clearly speaking another language having it edited to fit English just the same

[@jabloko992]

Maybe do a vid on the Statue of Liberty? The US folks might know all about it, but as a European I recently did some superficial reading on it and it looks like it has an interesting history. Also a lot of construction-y-engineer-y stuff that suits this channel.

[@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly]

Thank France for that lovely lady.

[@johngloom9235]

I like how Simon's personality is seeping through in this video

[@rosemaryhowell8694]

Great shows! And there are 79 of them on your site, and they all are always timely! I look forward to all of them. Thank-you!

[@mikemcdermott8535]

Next do the Nazi "Valkshalle" dome? (If we're doing structures that were never built that is.)

[@vodafoneuser1690]

L2german

[@serkorz3823]

The NAZI City of "Germania" designed by Hitler was to be built after WW 2 , was never started .

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:30 - Chapter 1 - Congress of the soviets 2:35 - Chapter 2 - The contests & destruction 5:00 - Chapter 3 - We have finally a winner 6:30 - Chapter 4 - Changes in design 8:10 - Mid roll ads 9:35 - Chapter 5 - Construction 10:25 - Chapter 6 - Requisitionning 11:10 - Chapter 7 - A glorious triumph 12:00 - Chapter 8 - An abandonned dream 13:15 - Chapter 9 - Full circle 14:05 - Chapter 10 - The end

[@brianstipsfordads9305]

Love your channels, could you do a video on the Iowa class battleship?

[@davidebusato2476]

I am surprised that Stalin didn't want his own statue as well...

[@tomfrazier1103]

The famed "Stalin's wedding cake" school of architechture.

[@arthas640]

It fits communist ideology and stalin perfectly. Flashy, pointless, riddled with problems and exaggerations, built using foreign experience, and claiming to be designed by commitie but actually being designed by some egotist behind the scenes. If this was built by Mao they would have just stolen the Empire State Building and slapped a red flag on top.

[@ColKorn1965]

The school of polished turds.

[@user-pf3kv4bv5s]

​@@arthas640 By your logic the New York architecture is "flashy, pointless, riddled with problems and exaggerations"

[@paradox7358]

'The Palace of the Soviets' - only the communists could ignore the hypocrisy in this.

[@EthanMKim]

*OUR* Palace

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

Some animals are more equal than others

[@kimjongun6746]

It is not the palace, it is our palace🏰🏯

[@borntoclimb7116]

where is the food...

[@kimjongun6746]

@@borntoclimb7116 🥩🥣🥢🥦🥡🥥🥧 hope it is enough

[@ColKorn1965]

My girlfriend looks upon her childhood in Moscow with fondness. She told me of visiting the big pool. I said, " You can't swim...." She said," I just hung out with my friends." 🤔

[@chrissiek8706]

In photos it looked like middle sized pond... Do they let boats in there maybe? 😅

[@hellcat1988]

Wow. I suddenly feel nostalgia for those old, dubbed, Jackie Chan movies.

[@ShannonMcDowell71]

Thank you for another fun, informative video! However, with all of Simon Whistler's KZbin channels I realized I hear his voice far more than I do my family's. I find this both amazing and saddening... Peace!

[@NovemberOrWhatever]

megaproject suggestion: the eradication of smallpox

[@piyushkumarvikram8126]

Hey Simon, I have a really good idea for. It is actually about New Delhi. So the New Delhi as we know it never existed till the time of British Raj in 1911 when During the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911, George V, then Emperor of India, along with Queen Mary, his consort, made the announcement that the capital of the Raj was to be shifted from Calcutta to Delhi. The foundation stone of New Delhi was laid by King George V and Queen Mary at the site of Delhi Durbar of 1911 on 15 December 1911. Architect Herbert Baker and Edward Lutyens were commissioned. It's a great mega-project which everyone would love to know more about due to the value New Delhi holds up in eyes of global community. We as Indians would just be as happy.🙂

[@darthsorosious3985]

New dehli looks as ugly as shit.

[@Shunteration]

Can you do one on Tatlin's Tower (officially the "Monument for the Third International"), the Palace of the Soviets' equally unbuilt big brother?

[@De4thInc4rn4te16]

the boy with the best channels on youtube, and the blaze!

[@WealthAndMoney]

Dude, I watch you religiously! Awesome content!

[@blasterelforg7276]

Loved that Ziggurat or Tower of Babel appeal.

[@Sprocketboy1956]

Megaproject idea: megalomania is wonderful to look at. Not only did the Nazis love giant guns and tanks and airplanes and architecture (Germania!) but there were plans for the Breitspurbahn, a wide gauge (3 metre!) rail system connecting all the new territories of the New Germany. Trains would have double decker cars and included amenities such as ballrooms, saunas, barbershops and swimming pools. Huge steam locomotives were planned (although they would not be able to enter train stations as everyone would choke from the soot and steam). However, as World War II went on and New Germany got smaller and smaller, the ambitions for the Breitspurbahn were scaled back but the planning office for the project continued in Berlin until almost the final days of the war.

[@M4rtinK]

A smaller monument to Stalin was actually built - in 1956 in Prague: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_Monument_(Prague) Just 15 meters high and 22 meters long, yet a coat button was as big as a bread loaf! Also keeping with the theme, while the monument was built, it was removed with about 800 kg of explosives just 6 years later as part of de-Stalinization efforts in 1962.

[@georgewilliams8448]

Thanks for all your hard work. I have watched most of them and enjoyed them.

[@patrickhasachannel]

Soviets: Can it be done? Architect: Da Soviets: On time and under budget, or even at all? Architect: Nyet

[@noodengr3three825]

I have visited that cathedral. Thanks for filling in the history of the site.

[@TinyScorpion44]

Comrade Simon, your editing comrade needs to be threatened with a trip to the gulag for their failure to sync audio to video

[@shinkicker404]

You should look into the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. Constructed between 1949 and 1974, there are 16 dams, 9 power stations and something like 220km of tunnels. Its the largest construction project in Australia and employed over 100,000 people.

[@chrisC052]

The Golden Gate Bridge would be interesting.

[@Banks4004]

skillshare advertising on youtube is like a carriage advertising on a maserati

[@PupperSophia]

Simons segways to the sponsors are always on point... :)

[@jettjohnson9413]

Hey Simon, can you offer a podcast version of your shows?? I love listening to them over and over and it would make it super simple to listen on the go!

[@GoodVideos4]

I was just watching that video here about the Crystal Palace. Good links. The grandeur of the respective empires.

[@anjayharris]

Thank you for your videos!!! Love them!!

[@shavedphil]

I see that the curious lack of sound synchronization has been mentioned often enough so far! When I studied in Moscow in the Soviet Union in the 1970s it was great to go for a swim in that swimming pool in the Winter with -20° outside but +25° or more in the water. You swam through a tunnel from the changing rooms into the open air pool and a curtain of steam hung over the whole pool. More than one old lady would comment to me when I was looking at the swimmers in the pool that it was like looking into the pit of hell with the steam representing the smoke from the fires and the swimmers bring the poor souls trapped forever below. As Simon had pointed out that this is where the Temple to Christ the Saviour had stood before being destroyed by the Communists, the comparison was, in their minds, fully justified.

[@projectinlinesix]

These sponsor transitions are the best!!

[@WarpFactor999]

Major revelation: Simon admits he wasn't around in the '30's!!! Amazing! So...the cathedral "pooled" their resources and rebuilt upon the ashes of the original site....interesting.

[@stephenlane9168]

Always good, great research David and great hilarious presentation Simon. Best channel on KZbin 👌

[@hanzup4117]

"Make it taller! I want to slap God in the face!" - Stalin

[@Duececoupe]

Excellent video as always! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻

[@ryanroberts1104]

Watching the end makes me realize half of Simon's talking is mostly visual. It's like english plus sign language at the same time!

[@JamesIves722]

Love all of these videos!! Have you thought about doing the Royal Albert Hall??? :)

[@luckerhdd3929]

The pool was actually a great idea. It didn't serve any king of ideology (unlike Palace of Soviets and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour) so it was great thing for everyone. They should have kept it but russia in 90s did lot of mistakes in order to delete everything that was just a little bit soviet looking or liked by people in soviet era.

[@TigOriMish]

Orthodox priests who, after the civil war in Russia, fled to the west, contributed to the demolition of the pool, and returned after the collapse of the USSR.

[@deborahpell3869]

OMG there"s nothing like kung fu panda audio. great work kung fow law.........

[@BunnyR13]

I've heard of this palace but never knew they stopped building it because of blitzkrieg. Nice that the church was rebuilt, should have fairly sound foundations...

[@electi0neering]

That was a trip Simon, I feel kinda weird now, might go to bed a little early, enough internet for today.

[@relativityboy]

Wow. Love that time-lag.

[@robertphillips6296]

It may have been in the plans to have a swimming pool inside, but the site actually became a swimming pool.

[@craniusdominus8234]

I suspect that the reason the project was abandoned after WW2 is that Stalin didnt really need it anymore. Initially, it had been started as a way to legitimize Stalin as a succesor to Lenin, and to prove to the Soviet peoples that the USSR was capable of feats of engineering and mobilization equal to those of capitalist nations. But then victory against the German war machine accomplished all of that, and the project became redundant.

[@user-pf3kv4bv5s]

It was not abandoned after WWII. Only under Khrushchev this project was canceled.

[@gwynyvyr]

Also, I wish the out of sync would happen on Business Blaze...would be the funniest thing ever!

[@BlackWolfessUSCM]

Nice Segway to Skill Share, Simon, you Absolute Legend.

[@johnholmes4363]

How many commercials does this channel need for Simon's heat, hot water and lights!?

[@ronbakker1300]

Whew that was close, I almost started bashing my computer until I realised it was the video out of sync, Simon should of watched the whole video at Skillshare on pro video editing . Hehe, sorry couldn't help myself. But yes I did enjoy the content.

[@MindlessDude]

I think a good megaprojects would be Denver airport. Lots of curious history and conspiracy in it to. Can't forget to add the demon horse sculpture in there to that killed its own creator. Super interesting.

[@andyelliott5084]

Recommend doing a video on the worlds largest Oil Supertanker ship, the largest ever made is the Seawise Giant previously named Jahre Viking.

[@My_Name_Suc]

The video sync at mid to end is interesting

[@marvinhines19]

Megaproject : Palace of Versailles

[@badluck5647]

Or Geographics

[@payne3249]

That audio and video sync is way off at the end, simon... Time for heads to roll....

[@stephenramos2824]

Missed opportunity...to the gulag with them

[@richtygart6855]

When Bolshevism took over Russia, they tried to eliminate religion. Their stated philosophy was atheism and they closed Christian Churches and killed or imprisoned the clergy. However, they did not close Jewish synagogues and kill or imprison the rabbis? The answer of why to this question explains many things about the early days of Communism and who actually ran it.

[@johncaze757]

Any source for this

[@thomasdadswell858]

10:00 thought my PC was having a stroke

[@southernboy7791]

After so many references to the Eifel Tower, I'm guessing that it will be one of your next Mega Project.

[@baker2niner]

Might want to check out the post-war "7 Sisters" in Moscow. Similar to the Palace in design (and more of them). Many call them the Ugly Sisters.

[@lipingrahman6648]

The palace seems to me in miniature reflect the entire history of the Soviet Union. They destroyed the Church to build a might temple to their new religion, failed, mad it into a pool, and after the union fell a church was built on top of the pool. All things change and all things stay the same.

[@J-Called]

That is a very good observation. Lenin and his trhugs were all about destruction; and though they were able to steal and destroy the property of the Orthodox Church, they could not steal or destroy its Faith. The Soviet Union has fallen, a historical joke of epic proportions; but the Orthodox Faith thrives exactly has it has since Christ founded it. If the Faith could survive Nero and Diocletian, it surely could survive a failued lawyer turned buffoon, Lenin, and it did do so splendidly..

[@yoanbouchard4013]

The daytona 500 speedway would be a great idea for a vid

[@alexanderkurtev8121]

I think a good suggestion for a video will be about the plans for the mega city of Germania (after Germany won ww2)

[@Supernaut2000]

I am sure Skillshare are thrilled to be associated with a high school production quality level video where the speaker is dubbed over.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Russians: We want a pool City Planners: Well we've got this huge hole dug already

[@Viper-dn8ix]

Hey Simon, I'm tired so I'll be brief: You should do a video on Denver International Airport. It's very interesting because of it's history, location, and national/world standing as a large and busy place. Okay, GN.

[@JaelaOrdo]

Despite my hatred of communism, I must admit the design of the building is very impressive. I’d replace the statue of Lenin with one of Libertas, but that’s just my personal opinion.

[@JaelaOrdo]

@ it’s just my opinion, i like big buildings

[@JaelaOrdo]

@ I like the pentagon (although it could be nicer), but no, not all large buildings.

[@colinwest8658]

The strange audio issues at the end were strangely entertaining

[@rayceeya8659]

Whoa Simon, you need to fix your video. You lose sync right after "Operation Barbarossa" and it's like that for the rest of the video.

[@chadwahl9085]

Been there in 2003 , the cathedral very impressive.

[@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available]

I think there were concerns that the soil the foundation was sitting on was not suitable for a building of such proportions.

[@raywest7570]

I used to watch megaprojects all the time but no more. Why you ask ? Skillshare is why !!!

[@DeniseSpencer]

Hi Simon! Please do a video on the Duomo of Milan!

[@adrianmbutnariu]

Next: People Palace, Bucharest. Second heaviest building in the world after the Pentagon.

[@Electriceye1984bySam]

DUDE who you trying to "out beard"? 😅love your channels keep up the good work

[@pittbullking87]

This reminds of the "new" (it is almost 100 years old at this point,) state capital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana which was built by Louisiana state governor Huey Long in the 1920's. Huey was a progressive and a socialist and the building reflects this with all of these carvings and murals depicting the glorious farmers, fishermen and workers of Louisiana along with a idealized history of the state and its' heroes. No expense was spared in construction. The interior is finished with the most expensive marble, granite and other stone; Larger than life statues abound with brass fittings everywhere.The old state capital built in the 1840's looks like a Gothic feudal castle whereas the new one is a sky scraper, a monument to one man's futuristic vision for the state.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Megaprojects: Government Blaze!

[@zeroawn3805]

Hi Simon love you and all your channels. Question have you/could you possible do a video on the ITER (international thermal experimental reactor) / history of nuclear fusion reactors for MegaProjects? Also if you look up the location of the ITER facility on Google Maps the whole area is blurred out which i found interesting. Keep up the amazing work :)

[@danicalifornia505]

Megaproject video idea, mapping the ocean