The House of the Free Press
Towering Stalinist-era printing palace still bearing hammer-and-sickle reliefs, fronted by a steel memorial.
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This guide to the House of the Free Press in Bucharest follows the bronze Lenin who stood in front of it for thirty years, and the March of nineteen ninety when the city set out to take him down. It reaches back to the building's first life as the House of the Spark, printing the Communist Party newspaper, and forward to a plinth that sat almost empty for a generation. Stand facing the steel Wings monument, with the tower's facade behind it.
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