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A Library that Looks Like the Death Star (Pictures)

englishrussia.com — Here is a truly strange creation, made upon orders of the president of Belarus. It is the new National Library for Belarus, but some people say that it looks like the Death Star. The oddly shaped building was made with public tax money and involuntary contributions from teachers salaries and school children.

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  • Paktu, on 10/10/2007, -7/+23I had no idea AT&T had a Russian branch...
  • bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -3/+149From TFA:
    "some people say it looks like the death star... those people are completely ***** insane"
    • micropizzle, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30Unless all giant, spherical objects look like the death star, I just wouldn't have made the connection without this article.
    • hydriplex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+55silly people, it's an 8-bit death star
    • edchen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I'm inclined to agree. There's no way that thing looks like a Death Star.
    • Tr33fiddy, on 10/10/2007, -12/+6That's no Death Star it's a moon... wait, that's no moon it's a Death Star, wait, that's no moon it's a library, wait, that's no library it's a Death Moon, wait wait... that's no.... moon star, wait... what?
      • capiCrimm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13honestly , you took a perfectly good movie reference, sawed off it's head and raped it's eyesockets out.
        • theholycow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That was a movie reference? I thought it was just harkening back to the article posted recently about a moon that looks like the deathstar.
        • Tr33fiddy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1well that was kinda the point.
    • DalekKiller, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Yeah I have to say that don't look anything like a Death Star.
  • EXTER, on 10/10/2007, -3/+66Thats no library ...
  • RadiantBeing, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Brutal and tacky at the same time.
  • dallascorbin504, on 10/10/2007, -11/+0how spicy would you like your chang sauce?
  • Error601, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24More like some kind of borg thing.
  • Osuperman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+91Looks good, but in no way reminds me of the Death Star...
    • DrunkenSavior, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Agreed. I was at least expecting a huge 'crater' on one of the sides. What a letdown.
    • smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1looks like the perfect place for a library rave.

      pass out the glow sticks, e, and nitrous, and snuggle up with your favorite book.
    • NinjaJoey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not a Death Star
  • mrgreenjeans, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37In Russia, library.....I'm not that guy.
  • ElbridgeGerry, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15Darth Reader.
  • greenblob, on 10/10/2007, -20/+1That's no small moon...
    • therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7dude, you didn't even get the quote right! what's the point if you can't even get a quote correctly from a movie we've all seen a hundred times? let alone the fact that somebody ALREADY said it.
  • juttman, on 10/10/2007, -18/+1Use the force Bush, nuke that thing
    • HPCELarry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Try and not politicize everything mb?
  • jmontes, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Just love that music video at the bottom of the page!
  • Niddik, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5The Cold War ended 16 years ago.
  • insomniac8400, on 10/10/2007, -19/+2Can't wait until a guy with a towel on his head uses a russian made explosive device to destroy it.
    • nigh7dagger, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0Get the slur right. It's raghead not towelhead.
  • MageLordy, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2down already?

    "and involuntary contributions from teachers salaries and school children." did you mean voluntary..?
  • holygram, on 10/10/2007, -5/+31"involuntary contributions from teachers salaries and school children"

    In Soviet Russia....they steal your ***** money, bitch.
    • GuertyMof, on 07/14/2008, -0/+12Have you looked at your paycheck stub lately? In America... they... nevermind.
  • fadeout, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2It's pretty fitting. Look Belarus up, it's pretty bad when your dictator is so crazy that Putin doesn't want to accept control over them.
  • gossipninja, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11that needs to be the headquarters for a bond villian.
  • DropTheOxygen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Doesn't look like the deathstar, but its not like anything else is going on at digg today
    /me digs in apathy
  • bigern75, on 10/18/2007, -1/+8ummm, Im pretty sure the DS is round
    • therightclique, on 10/18/2007, -5/+2the DS is actually rectangular. it has two screens. (psst. just so you know, under no circumstance is it appropriate for you to abbreviate two words down to their initials, unless you are working in a marketing department)
      • LordVance, on 10/18/2007, -0/+4PJSYKUNCIIAFYTDWAWPCAW


        (psst. just so you know, under no circumstance is it appropriate for you to decide when and where people can abbreviate words.)
        • bigern75, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1hahaha thanks
          DS = Death Star
          NOT Dual Screens
  • Reedan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
  • slapout, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Well, that's one way to get kids to read.
  • vf97, on 10/10/2007, -9/+1That's no moon.
  • samadam, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2http://xkcd.com/307/
  • flareback, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1thats tacky.
  • djjuice, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11wasn't the death star round?
  • xiambax, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1In rassia library reads you.
  • techsmack, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12WOW its perfect. The EXACT replica of the deathstar.. I am amazed...

    .end sarcasm.
  • Cutkomp, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1I'm glad to know that I have something in common with the schoolchildren and teachers in Belarus. I worked all of 2001 just to help pay the interest for some bombs we dropped on Vietnam many decades ago. It wasn't voluntary.
  • vinnythekidd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Nobody else is gonna say it? Alright I'll say it. That library is hideous. Seriously that is maybe the least aesthetically pleasing works of human imagination that I've seen. If I was to sit down and draw a picture of the most god-awful building I could come up with it still wouldn't be that bad. Welcome to 1976, Belarus. Nice lights.
    • therightclique, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4several people already said it. sorry.
    • tbr0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0If you think that's bad, you obviously haven't been to Shanghai. Shanghai has at least five similar things on every block.
  • johnkyoungoh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8It doesn't look like the Death Star, it looks like a Daft Punk prop.
  • Ocelot13, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4yea...that looks nothing like the death star...its a.) not a sphere b.) theres no indent c.) its not floating in space.
    buried as lame
  • Warptera, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Completely hideous building. I was expecting a modern building capable of inducing inspiration and calmness, but what I found was an ugly box with nothing library-like about it.
  • Br0wn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I hope they at least remembered to put some guards at the exhaust pipe.
  • compgeek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3buried. it does not look like the death star
  • GuertyMof, on 07/14/2008, -0/+13Maybe if the Death Star were made of salvaged Lite-Brite parts.
  • ahughes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1This is a really cool building. It looks nothing like the death star however.
  • fx4snowbird, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0dugg for the awesome music in the video!
  • GuertyMof, on 07/14/2008, -1/+9Maybe if the Death Star was made of salvaged Lite-Brite parts.
  • antiorblkflag9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It doesn't look like The Death Star as much as it does a giant library with a bunch of lights on the side.
  • turleh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0looks more like Bobba Fett's head.
  • DextaRussell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1We should turn the white house into the death star.
  • AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Inaccurate. There are no libraries in former Soviet countries.
  • GeorgeWKush, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3lame, it might look like the Death Star if it were in an 8 bit video game.
  • p014k, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2In Russia...hmmm, well for the past 16 years its been Belarus. So no..not Russia.
  • hippykiller, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Which star wars did you watch again?
  • tbr0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Where in Minsk is this? Not very central eh?
    • Ungh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+153°55'52.93"N
      27°38'45.68"E
      Google Earth has pictures of it while still under construction.
  • krisscofield, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1In Soviet Russia....-
  • Travisty2012, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I want to make a Winamp plugin to control the lights on that thing...
  • iChainsaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Looks pretty awesome...but it looks absolutely nothing like the deathstar. Well actually, like the guy above me said, it could be an 8bit rendition of the deathstar!
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