Skyscrapers in Totalitarian Country?

Fascist Italy would probably be all about the brutalist, quasi-deco futurism.

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And apparently Mussolini was planning this in 1925, which reminds me of a less wedding cake Stalinism.
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The EUR district in Rome, where the first picture is from, is an interesting place to walk through
 
Francoist Spain did build two skyscrpaers in the 1950-1960s in Spain, one which looks very Soviet, the Edificio España and one that looks more like an American skyscraper, the Torre Madrid.

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-Torre de Madrid, left, Edificio España right.

Yeah, pretty much. In the 40s you had an actually nationalist, Falangist-sponsored style, the Escorialist or Neo-Herrerian, which was a throwback to late 16th cent architecture. Take a look at the airforce hq for example:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuartel_General_del_Ejército_del_Aire

I suppose that such a style would discourage skyscrappers but well, you can just make that kind of tower taller I suppose. My town's seminary is from that time and has a pretty tall bell tower already.

From the mid-50s on you have the technocrats creeping in and kicking the old Falange out and as you said those didn't care so much about ideology as long as they made money. But of course, who knows if it would be the same in an ATL, an Axis victory world for example.
 
Well, it wasn't. Not after Stalin, anyway. Authoritarian? Yes. But Authoritarian is not Totalitarian. Such as how Socialism is not Communist.

But the OP specifically mentioned Stalin. You can't say Stalinist USSR wasn't totalitarian.
 
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