I have always loved seeing Soviet architecture on my travels through the former SSR's , in all its forms from Stalin's Empirical styles through time to as you say post modernism. The more brutal the better!
There was a documentary in the UK I think around about 2023/24 featuring your mayor, Vitali Klitschko, even then he was highly critical of VZ and his cronyism. I didn't want to believe it. The world still sees VZ as a war hero, but are there cracks appearing? Is it right to say Putin is correct when he has always said that Ukraine is governed by corrupt nazis?
We certainly do live in interesting times.
Ukrainians have nothing to do with nazis. Forget that.
Z is a professional artist. This is the only thing he can (and should) do. He was never in politics or diplomacy, wasn't even a top manager. He does not know how to run the country. Almost all of his close circle have family in Russia (father, mither, brother..), some even have a Russian passport. But Z had a very good speechwriter in the first year or two of the full-scale invasion. Klitschko criticized Z for reason, but he himself is not much better as a mayor ((
it is always good to get a true insight thanks, it sounds so complicated seriously complicated.
If you look at it abstractly, it's not that complicated. The actions of these politicians are driven by money, not ideology ((
this is a bit like the situation with your Johnson.
BoJo is a strange one, he was in the pockets of russian oligarchs