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The last few minutes is like watching an overdubbed kung fu flick.

Sorry about the video at the end being all funky. Mildly interesting behind-the-scenes explanation: We had a fix to do in the video (where I screw something up and have to rerecord a section), and I think we must have screwed up the timing on some of the graphics after that was inserted into the video. Then, because I'm such a pro, I'm like: Nahhh, I don't need to proof watch this again, we just inserted a clip! I'm not such a pro ;). Hope you still found this one interesting everyone :)

Architect: how big do you want your building Soviets: da

Megaproject: Palace of Simon's KZfaq Takeover

A fitting counterpart for this would be a video about Welthauptstadt Germania, the planed capital of nazi Germany. There were some truly massive buildings like the Ruhmeshalle, a dome with a planed hight of 320m.

Video/Audio desynch after "Requisitioning" around 10:34. Megaprojects video on how you keep having editing errors, eh Simon? XD

Mega Project Suggestion : The Berlin Airport that just finally opened up.

12:18 me reminds of a joke. In early fifties in Moscow, a man on his way to work, took a look at front page of Pravda a the same newsstand every morning but never bought the newspaper. This went on for a quite a long time until the person running the newsstand asked: "What are you hoping the see in the front page?" The man replied: "I'm looking for an obituary." The person running the kiosk said that: "But obituaries aren't published in the front page." To which the man replied: "This one will be!"

How high was that in Michael Jordans?

Russian hackers definitely edited the audio for this video.

I think a good idea is the largest container ship in production. Like it is so hard to think of how big it is. I can't remember the name.

Audio seems desynced at the end for me.

Great shows! And there are 79 of them on your site, and they all are always timely! I look forward to all of them. Thank-you!

Always good, great research David and great hilarious presentation Simon. Best channel on KZfaq 👌

Thanks for all your hard work. I have watched most of them and enjoyed them.

This building is in Red Alert 3, and i have always wondered what it actually was Great video

The interesting fact is that the internal structure of the Palace resembled that of a classical Russian church/temple designs, resembling parts of the temple that was there(now rebuild). So it was a Temple to some degree.

Excellent video as always! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻

Thank you for your videos!!! Love them!!

Thank you for another fun, informative video! However, with all of Simon Whistler's KZfaq channels I realized I hear his voice far more than I do my family's. I find this both amazing and saddening... Peace!

the boy with the best channels on youtube, and the blaze!

'The Palace of the Soviets' - only the communists could ignore the hypocrisy in this.

Hey could you do one on the Forth road and rail bridges in Scotland please? They are 3 large bridges very close to each other and showcase three different styles of great bridges.

Love all of these videos!! Have you thought about doing the Royal Albert Hall??? :)

Love your channels, could you do a video on the Iowa class battleship?

Megaproject Suggestion. Longest deep bore ice core in Antarctica. Took years, loads of drama with it and they found some cool stuff like a fresh water lake under the ice containing previously unknown lifeforms. Would go Well with the other hole projects that are popular Speaking of deep holes, how about the Kidd Mine as well?

This video got so out of sync, it became comical.

Hey Simon, can you offer a podcast version of your shows?? I love listening to them over and over and it would make it super simple to listen on the go!

Maybe do a vid on the Statue of Liberty? The US folks might know all about it, but as a European I recently did some superficial reading on it and it looks like it has an interesting history. Also a lot of construction-y-engineer-y stuff that suits this channel.

Do one on the Detroit masonic temple. It's an incredible building, and still standing. Largest masonic temple in the world. It was designed such that you could have two ballrooms simultaneously occupied underneath a theater and a drill Hall on top of the theater and you wouldn't be able to hear many of the other goings on from any of those rooms.

Dude, I watch you religiously! Awesome content!

The famed "Stalin's wedding cake" school of architechture.

Mad respect for you clearly speaking another language having it edited to fit English just the same

Hi Simon love you and all your channels. Question have you/could you possible do a video on the ITER (international thermal experimental reactor) / history of nuclear fusion reactors for MegaProjects? Also if you look up the location of the ITER facility on Google Maps the whole area is blurred out which i found interesting. Keep up the amazing work :)

I like how Simon's personality is seeping through in this video

The Palace of the Soviets was not built, but instead the Seven Sisters were, a bunch of Stalinist/Classicist skyscrapers, including the main building of Lomonosov University. This style later became a model for other buildings, including the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, and the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, the latter which is unfinished to this day. There were plans for something in this style in Budapest as well, but that never materialized.

Great video!

I have visited that cathedral. Thanks for filling in the history of the site.

I was just watching that video here about the Crystal Palace. Good links. The grandeur of the respective empires.

My girlfriend looks upon her childhood in Moscow with fondness. She told me of visiting the big pool. I said, " You can't swim...." She said," I just hung out with my friends." 🤔

1:30 - Chapter 1 - Congress of the soviets 2:35 - Chapter 2 - The contests & destruction 5:00 - Chapter 3 - We have finally a winner 6:30 - Chapter 4 - Changes in design 8:10 - Mid roll ads 9:35 - Chapter 5 - Construction 10:25 - Chapter 6 - Requisitionning 11:10 - Chapter 7 - A glorious triumph 12:00 - Chapter 8 - An abandonned dream 13:15 - Chapter 9 - Full circle 14:05 - Chapter 10 - The end

Nice Segway to Skill Share, Simon, you Absolute Legend.

Next time The Palace of Parlament from Romania? Or transfagarasan?

DUDE who you trying to "out beard"? 😅love your channels keep up the good work

Soviets: Can it be done? Architect: Da Soviets: On time and under budget, or even at all? Architect: Nyet

Simons segways to the sponsors are always on point... :)

megaproject suggestion: the eradication of smallpox

I am surprised that Stalin didn't want his own statue as well...

You should look into the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. Constructed between 1949 and 1974, there are 16 dams, 9 power stations and something like 220km of tunnels. Its the largest construction project in Australia and employed over 100,000 people.

Wow. I suddenly feel nostalgia for those old, dubbed, Jackie Chan movies.

These sponsor transitions are the best!!

Can you do one on Tatlin's Tower (officially the "Monument for the Third International"), the Palace of the Soviets' equally unbuilt big brother?

That was a trip Simon, I feel kinda weird now, might go to bed a little early, enough internet for today.

A smaller monument to Stalin was actually built - in 1956 in Prague: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_Monument_(Prague) Just 15 meters high and 22 meters long, yet a coat button was as big as a bread loaf! Also keeping with the theme, while the monument was built, it was removed with about 800 kg of explosives just 6 years later as part of de-Stalinization efforts in 1962.

After so many references to the Eifel Tower, I'm guessing that it will be one of your next Mega Project.

Next do the Nazi "Valkshalle" dome? (If we're doing structures that were never built that is.)

some interesting editing in this one :)

Hey Simon, I have a really good idea for. It is actually about New Delhi. So the New Delhi as we know it never existed till the time of British Raj in 1911 when During the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911, George V, then Emperor of India, along with Queen Mary, his consort, made the announcement that the capital of the Raj was to be shifted from Calcutta to Delhi. The foundation stone of New Delhi was laid by King George V and Queen Mary at the site of Delhi Durbar of 1911 on 15 December 1911. Architect Herbert Baker and Edward Lutyens were commissioned. It's a great mega-project which everyone would love to know more about due to the value New Delhi holds up in eyes of global community. We as Indians would just be as happy.🙂

I've heard of this palace but never knew they stopped building it because of blitzkrieg. Nice that the church was rebuilt, should have fairly sound foundations...

Hey Simon, I'm tired so I'll be brief: You should do a video on Denver International Airport. It's very interesting because of it's history, location, and national/world standing as a large and busy place. Okay, GN.

Megaproject idea: megalomania is wonderful to look at. Not only did the Nazis love giant guns and tanks and airplanes and architecture (Germania!) but there were plans for the Breitspurbahn, a wide gauge (3 metre!) rail system connecting all the new territories of the New Germany. Trains would have double decker cars and included amenities such as ballrooms, saunas, barbershops and swimming pools. Huge steam locomotives were planned (although they would not be able to enter train stations as everyone would choke from the soot and steam). However, as World War II went on and New Germany got smaller and smaller, the ambitions for the Breitspurbahn were scaled back but the planning office for the project continued in Berlin until almost the final days of the war.

Comrade Simon, your editing comrade needs to be threatened with a trip to the gulag for their failure to sync audio to video

I see that the curious lack of sound synchronization has been mentioned often enough so far! When I studied in Moscow in the Soviet Union in the 1970s it was great to go for a swim in that swimming pool in the Winter with -20° outside but +25° or more in the water. You swam through a tunnel from the changing rooms into the open air pool and a curtain of steam hung over the whole pool. More than one old lady would comment to me when I was looking at the swimmers in the pool that it was like looking into the pit of hell with the steam representing the smoke from the fires and the swimmers bring the poor souls trapped forever below. As Simon had pointed out that this is where the Temple to Christ the Saviour had stood before being destroyed by the Communists, the comparison was, in their minds, fully justified.

Wow. Love that time-lag.

Hi Simon! Please do a video on the Duomo of Milan!

Good video but toward the end isn't the soundtrack slightly offset from the video stream?

The Golden Gate Bridge would be interesting.

Hey Simon, great vid as always but the production quality wasn't there. The audio looked like it was dubbed. Hope this is a one off.

"Make it taller! I want to slap God in the face!" - Stalin

Loved that Ziggurat or Tower of Babel appeal.

I think a good megaprojects would be Denver airport. Lots of curious history and conspiracy in it to. Can't forget to add the demon horse sculpture in there to that killed its own creator. Super interesting.

I'll tell you who else is buckling under the pressure, your editor!

Recommend doing a video on the worlds largest Oil Supertanker ship, the largest ever made is the Seawise Giant previously named Jahre Viking.

Watching the end makes me realize half of Simon's talking is mostly visual. It's like english plus sign language at the same time!

Idea for a video on the channel, the detection system for earthquakes and or Tsunamis

Love the video as always, one question tho, you said at the end "you couldn't possibly build such a building in the modern era", why not?

Megaproject video idea, mapping the ocean

The pool was actually a great idea. It didn't serve any king of ideology (unlike Palace of Soviets and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour) so it was great thing for everyone. They should have kept it but russia in 90s did lot of mistakes in order to delete everything that was just a little bit soviet looking or liked by people in soviet era.

Also, I wish the out of sync would happen on Business Blaze...would be the funniest thing ever!

I think a good suggestion for a video will be about the plans for the mega city of Germania (after Germany won ww2)

Great video, maybe just my device but the audio is off pace with the video

How many commercials does this channel need for Simon's heat, hot water and lights!?

Do one about the relocation of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse!

Hey Simon, would you consider a Megaprojects videos about ITER, the experimental fusion reactor in France? I don't think it's one you've done before though it can be a bit hard to keep track...

some of the audio is out of sync with the video. btw love your new kung fu video...though there was no fighting in it. lol

The daytona 500 speedway would be a great idea for a vid

The palace seems to me in miniature reflect the entire history of the Soviet Union. They destroyed the Church to build a might temple to their new religion, failed, mad it into a pool, and after the union fell a church was built on top of the pool. All things change and all things stay the same.

Whew that was close, I almost started bashing my computer until I realised it was the video out of sync, Simon should of watched the whole video at Skillshare on pro video editing . Hehe, sorry couldn't help myself. But yes I did enjoy the content.

Grazie Marza!

How about a video about the river control structures along the Mississippi River done by the army core of engineers to prevent flooding like that of the great 1927 flood. Especially structures like the Morganza Spillway.

Your audio is out of sync twords the end. A couple of your recent ones on a few channels, not the blaze, Sam is great, have had the same issue.

Next the Great Hall please =) If this is perhaps not enough for a complete Video then Germania (the transforming of Berlin)

Good video 👍

If we're doing megaprojects that (as of yet, who knows...) just plans, can we get an episode on the Dutch proposal to 'Deltawork'/dam the entire north sea?

The video sync at mid to end is interesting

Yet another interesting project, a pity that when I watched the video there was an issue with the lipsink.

Ayyo love these shows and im here early so might as well comment

Been there in 2003 , the cathedral very impressive.

Whoa Simon, you need to fix your video. You lose sync right after "Operation Barbarossa" and it's like that for the rest of the video.