no mass-produced concrete khrushchyovka is complete without a two-tone colour palette of stark white and eyesore green to run along its insides. like the militaristic speeches overflowing from screens across the country, the décor constitutes an insistent and unpleasant background.

with a multiplying effect, words projected from lecterns are mirrored by walls, neither in dialogue with exterior spaces.

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the latin phrase carthago delendo est, ceterum censeo carthaginem delendam esse is attributed to roman senator cato the elder (234-139 b.c.e.). the words, translated most closely as moreover, I consider that carthage must be destroyed, was his closing statement in most speeches, irrespective of content.