Warsaw Skyscraper
* “Warsaw Tries to Polish Up a Stalinist-Era Eyesore” (Aug. 13), about the Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science, cites numerous Polish voices to emphasize this point: That Stalin’s “gift” to the Polish capital of this socialist realist architectural monstrosity came at a high price, communism.
What the article fails to see is the symbolism of this 760-foot-tall structure, begun in 1952, completed in 1955. By 1945 Warsaw had been literally flattened into rubble by the Nazis. Like it or not, the palace represented rebirth.
ERIC A. GORDON
Los Angeles
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