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The Communists' Megalomaniac Plans in Zlín. See What the City Center Could Have Looked Like

Summary by Novinky.cz
Zlín is a city inextricably linked to the name of the shoe magnate and big businessman Tomáš Bata. Everything that bore his legacy had to be transformed or even erased from the architectural map after the rise of the Communist Party in 1948. This was not just a matter of partial changes, but of transforming the entire functionalist visual into a new socialist city. We will look at what the center of Zlín could have looked like in the next part o…

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Zlín is a city inextricably linked to the name of the shoe magnate and big businessman Tomáš Bata. Everything that bore his legacy had to be transformed or even erased from the architectural map after the rise of the Communist Party in 1948. This was not just a matter of partial changes, but of transforming the entire functionalist visual into a new socialist city. We will look at what the center of Zlín could have looked like in the next part o…

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Novinky.cz broke the news on Saturday, July 4, 2026.
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