It features a huge ballroom with niches for portraits of the dictator and his wife and a sliding roof so that a helicopter can enter and exit. The building also had a nuclear bunker. The aesthetic sense of the two men is much the same but Trump’s construction will probably be even worse.

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I have been trying to think of what Trump’s hideous “ballroom” project reminds me of — and I finally have it — it is Nicolai Ceausescu’s infamous and unfinished House of the People in communist Romania, which also brought awfulness to a lovely downtown.

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Six years ago today, I wrote about Versailles 1919. The title caused one thousand people to correct my pronunciation (it was a joke), and the text made a few grumps grumble that they still didn't know anything about the game. So: one of my best! spacebiff.com/2020/10/19/v...

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When I play it, usually late at night, I always end up at bed planning things for the next turn or rethinking movements.

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One of the best power politics games. Very accessible, and pretty easy to teach as well.

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