I'm not sure whether Soviet thinking is relevant but, when I visited the Soviet Union as was, I was told that the reason why they put so much effort into restoring Tsarist palaces to their former glory was to honour the craftsmen who created the originals.
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Date: 2009-07-13 02:13 pm (UTC)