Confrontation between the two pavilions, Paris, 1937.
 

At the Paris Exposition of 1937 in front of the pavilion of the USSR pavilion was Nazi Germany. After the builders have done to build our pavilion - the architects built a German and a higher top hoisted the eagle with a swastika. But when workers started to collect our sculptural composition "Worker and Collective Farm Girl" Germans knew what would be the total height of the pavilion in the USSR. In the hastily built a mode of its even higher. The aim was one - superiority in height. And entered the history of this confrontation between the two pavilions.

Paris, 1937, World Fair, documentary footage of:

Assuming that the is competition held in shadow Eiffel Tower ...
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Evolution of the Palace of Soviets Boris Iofan et al.
 

tips [/URL] - unrealized ambitious construction project of the Soviet government .

1. Palace of Soviets in Moscow. Boris Iofan , Vladimir Shuko, Vladimir Gelfreich . Version of 1933.

2. Palace of Soviets in Moscow. B. Iofan , V. Shuko , V. Gelfreich . Version of 1934.

3. Palace of Soviets in Moscow. B. Iofan , V. Shuko , V. Gelfreich . Version of 1934.

4. Palace of Soviets in Moscow. Boris Iofan , Vladimir Shuko, Vladimir Gelfreich . Option 1937.

5. Palace of Soviets in Moscow. B. Iofan , V. Shuko (? ), V. Gelfreich . Option 1943-45 period.

6. Palace of Mogilev . B. Iofan , V. Gelfreich , J. Belopol'skii, V. Pelevin . Sculptor Merkurov . One version of the approved project in 1946 .

Thanks so much for these pictures!
You can see how things look in general.
Mukhina sculpture looks good and draws up all the space around, even fills a special meaning, which is above the ideological errors.