Some of them are still unfinished, others are already destroyed. Some are emptied from their former function and looking for new content, some are going strong serving the same purpose they’ve been built for. Architecturally, some of them were ahead of their time, others were hopelessly behind. All of them are loved and hated, nicknamed or re-named as the regimes pass by. All of them are biggest, or tallest, or larg¬est - in their city, in their country or in the world. All of them have been a technological challenge for their time. All of them have a plenty of legends, conspiracy theories or just funny stories about them. In seven countries of the former Socialist block seven monumental buildings contain the personal stories of many people – those who had the fantasy and the power to order them; those who built them and were decorated with medals and titles; those, who maintain the mechanical bodies of these architectural titans today; those who remember not the politics and the transitions but life itself. Bulgaria, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Germany. Each one of them has a Palace erected back then as an ulti¬mate status symbol of the Ruling Class.Sooner or later, every Socialist state in Europe set forth its own mega-project of a building that would embody the ideas of rulers to communicate to their people. Most of these mega-buildings are still in place - and, like it or not, have become an integral part of the local culture. Each of these monsters is a monument of a dictatorship - but also a memory of the people who dared to project and build them.We will explore the story behind each of these buildings, their architecture and design, their legends, their hidden spaces and their inhabitants now. It would present the people who work in each of them - from the head of state to the window cleaner. Utopia fantasies, urban legends and the questionable triumph of the past will meet in a new interpretation of the People and their Palaces.