Trying to Save a Concrete Monument to Corruption'
Briefly

The National Hotel, once a proud symbol of the Soviet Union's embrace of modernity, now stands as a ruin in Moldova, reflecting post-Soviet dysfunctions and corruption in one of Europe's poorest countries.
Competing groups of graffiti artists have turned the hotel's facade into a canvas of rival loyalties, painting it with colors of various flags in a struggle for identity and ownership amidst wealth tycoons' opaque dealings.
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