Palac Kultury i Nauki, Plac Defilad (looking north-east)
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The post-war Palace of Culture and Science, popularly known as 'Stalin's Gift', was built between 1952 and 1955 as a present from the USSR to the people of Warsaw. The north-western corner of the Palace stands on what was the south-eastern corner of the Small Ghetto. The entire area was destroyed in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. It is an imposing structure, but many Varsovians understandably detest it and would like to see it demolished, or obscured by other tall buildings. Reputedly the land around it cannot be developed until lawsuits regarding its ownership are settled, as much of the area was in Jewish ownership before the war.