9:48 As a graduate of the University of Architecture, I have to speak here. Brutalist architecture in Bratislava was designed before the beginning of the occupation by the Soviet Army, i.e. before 1968 or just after it, also as a protest against an unfree regime. It was at the time when the foundations of Alexander Dubček's planned reforms were being laid in Slovakia, which were destroyed by the military occupation. The architects were inspired by the work of the American architect Paul Rudolph, the founder of Brutalism. One more piece of information for orientation. There are around two million emigrants living in North America who claim to be of Slovak origin. That is one third of the entire nation. One more note. In Slovakia, we did not have Soviet times 9:50, nor Soviet history 13:29, nor the Soviet era 13:49, we only had an uninvited occupying army from the Soviet Union, closed in its military bases, where it was preparing for a nuclear war. ua-cam.com/video/_-MrVcxkR3w/v-deo.html The Soviet occupying army had no relation to Slovak architecture or to the manufactured products. Soviet time, Soviet history and the Soviet era were in the territory of the state - the Soviet Union, which imperially expanded abroad with its communist ideology. But Czechoslovakia continued to exist with its own state, time, history and era. It got rid of communists in 1989 and military occupation in 1991. 9:55 You failed to illustrate Bratislava with this image of Budapest. 13:19 I had the same Škoda Favorit. But it no longer symbolizes the rule of the communists, but the period of the rise of capitalism after their fall. This model was produced at a time when the owner of the Czech car company was already the German Volkswagen. On April 16, 1991, Škoda from Mladá Boleslav became the fourth brand of the Volkswagen concern. In 1991, VW also came to Bratislava in Slovakia. Until then, passenger vehicles were not produced in Slovakia. Today, Slovakia is an automotive kingdom and the largest producer of vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants in the world with 198 units. 40 units are produced in Germany and 12 in China. Porsche Cayenne, Audi Q7 and Q8, VW Touareg and VW Passat, Škoda Superb are produced in Bratislava. Bentley Bentayga and Lamborghini Urus bodies are produced here. 14:00 I worked as a creator of spatial plans in Slovakia at the State Institute of Urbanism and Spatial Planning URBION. It was the highest ranking institution in the field. I am really very curious about what you learned about Soviet urban planning, which was never here, because if I wanted to meet Soviet colleagues I would have to travel to Moscow or another city of the Soviet Union. What you present here is complete nonsense. A large part of the panel houses in Bratislava was built according to the Austrian license of the company Bauring. They are the same in Vienna. No Soviet design or construction organizations were active in Slovakia. On the other hand, in the Soviet Union there were organizations from Slovakia that built infrastructure, for example gas pipelines, built entire city districts with complete equipment, down to furniture, and our country financed it. When the Soviet Union collapsed and went to the dustbin of history, it left behind colossal debts. They were then repaid by, for example, deliveries of MiG-29 fighters to the Slovak Air Force. After Russia's attack on Ukraine, we donated them all to Ukraine. Slovakia is the only country in the world that gave them the entire fighter air force. To put the Russians in the teeth, for 1968 and for our subsequent hardship. 14:12 Few people know that communism did not come to Slovakia from the east, from Moscow, as in the other countries of the Yalta subjugation, but from the West, from Prague, where the communists took control of Czechoslovakia in 1948 after a coup d'état. Before that, there were free elections in 1946, in which the Communist Party won in the Czech Lands with 40 percent of the votes and the Democratic Party won in Slovakia with 62 percent of the votes. After these events, another part of the Slovak intelligentsia, persecuted by the communists as Slovak bourgeois nationalists, emigrated mostly to the USA and Canada. Communists were in power in Czechoslovakia for 41 years. It's a shame that you were mainly interested in this gloomy period out of the entire history of the city. After the Moravian prince Vratislav built a city on the ruins of the Roman border fortress Pisonium in 805-807, a lot of interesting things happened.
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9:48 As a graduate of the University of Architecture, I have to speak here. Brutalist architecture in Bratislava was designed before the beginning of the occupation by the Soviet Army, i.e. before 1968 or just after it, also as a protest against an unfree regime. It was at the time when the foundations of Alexander Dubček's planned reforms were being laid in Slovakia, which were destroyed by the military occupation. The architects were inspired by the work of the American architect Paul Rudolph, the founder of Brutalism. One more piece of information for orientation. There are around two million emigrants living in North America who claim to be of Slovak origin. That is one third of the entire nation. One more note. In Slovakia, we did not have Soviet times 9:50, nor Soviet history 13:29, nor the Soviet era 13:49, we only had an uninvited occupying army from the Soviet Union, closed in its military bases, where it was preparing for a nuclear war. ua-cam.com/video/_-MrVcxkR3w/v-deo.html The Soviet occupying army had no relation to Slovak architecture or to the manufactured products. Soviet time, Soviet history and the Soviet era were in the territory of the state - the Soviet Union, which imperially expanded abroad with its communist ideology. But Czechoslovakia continued to exist with its own state, time, history and era. It got rid of communists in 1989 and military occupation in 1991. 9:55 You failed to illustrate Bratislava with this image of Budapest.
13:19 I had the same Škoda Favorit. But it no longer symbolizes the rule of the communists, but the period of the rise of capitalism after their fall. This model was produced at a time when the owner of the Czech car company was already the German Volkswagen. On April 16, 1991, Škoda from Mladá Boleslav became the fourth brand of the Volkswagen concern. In 1991, VW also came to Bratislava in Slovakia. Until then, passenger vehicles were not produced in Slovakia. Today, Slovakia is an automotive kingdom and the largest producer of vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants in the world with 198 units. 40 units are produced in Germany and 12 in China. Porsche Cayenne, Audi Q7 and Q8, VW Touareg and VW Passat, Škoda Superb are produced in Bratislava. Bentley Bentayga and Lamborghini Urus bodies are produced here.
14:00 I worked as a creator of spatial plans in Slovakia at the State Institute of Urbanism and Spatial Planning URBION. It was the highest ranking institution in the field. I am really very curious about what you learned about Soviet urban planning, which was never here, because if I wanted to meet Soviet colleagues I would have to travel to Moscow or another city of the Soviet Union. What you present here is complete nonsense. A large part of the panel houses in Bratislava was built according to the Austrian license of the company Bauring. They are the same in Vienna. No Soviet design or construction organizations were active in Slovakia. On the other hand, in the Soviet Union there were organizations from Slovakia that built infrastructure, for example gas pipelines, built entire city districts with complete equipment, down to furniture, and our country financed it. When the Soviet Union collapsed and went to the dustbin of history, it left behind colossal debts. They were then repaid by, for example, deliveries of MiG-29 fighters to the Slovak Air Force. After Russia's attack on Ukraine, we donated them all to Ukraine. Slovakia is the only country in the world that gave them the entire fighter air force. To put the Russians in the teeth, for 1968 and for our subsequent hardship.
14:12 Few people know that communism did not come to Slovakia from the east, from Moscow, as in the other countries of the Yalta subjugation, but from the West, from Prague, where the communists took control of Czechoslovakia in 1948 after a coup d'état. Before that, there were free elections in 1946, in which the Communist Party won in the Czech Lands with 40 percent of the votes and the Democratic Party won in Slovakia with 62 percent of the votes. After these events, another part of the Slovak intelligentsia, persecuted by the communists as Slovak bourgeois nationalists, emigrated mostly to the USA and Canada.
Communists were in power in Czechoslovakia for 41 years. It's a shame that you were mainly interested in this gloomy period out of the entire history of the city. After the Moravian prince Vratislav built a city on the ruins of the Roman border fortress Pisonium in 805-807, a lot of interesting things happened.
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*Ahhh Travel Vlogs in the winter here makes it all the better to watch*