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The Death Star in Minsk
Star Wars fans, put Minsk on your destination list. The Death Star has totally landed there.This is no ordinary poly-dimensional structure; it also lights up. This is the most disco-loving, pimped-out car imitating, Force using library ever.
That's right. It's a library. This library was built as the result of a 1989 contest, and it took 13 years to build. According to EnglishRussia.com, The National Library in Minsk, Belarus, was erected "by a personal order of Belarus president Mr. Lukashenko. Locals joke: 'Lukashenko had just learned to read and decided to build a library dedicated to this new ability he acquired.'"
1989 ... just six years after the release of Return of the Jedi ...
Design in Belarus kind of reeks of Star Wars. Have you seen their airplanes with elliptical wings? Luke would totally fly in that.
The building was completed in June of 2006, but to us? It still looks like it's from the future. Check out the rockin' video of the library in action below! It's like Epcot on speed.
