Soviet Warsaw in Upstate New York

Came across these two pictures taken in Warsaw, Poland and Zagreb, Croatia on Nasty, Brutalist, and Short, an architecture-ish blog. They both bear an eerie resemblance to buildings in the Capital of New York State, Albany- where i spent several of my v impressionable years.

Set 1- Warsaw: The actually kind of amazing looking Palace of Culture and Science
...conceived by Stalin as a "gift of the Soviet people to the Polish nation."

 Albany: The Alfred E Smith building

 (Guess it's the Art Deco that these two have in common. In Communist Warsaw, Deco arts you, et.)

Set 2- Zagreb: Apartment building, I think:

 Albany: the 'Agency Buildings' on the Empire State Plaza

 

Here's the two Albany buildings (on the left side) in a picture from the SKY

Bonus Albany fun fact

• The city's first name when settled by the Dutch was "The Fuyck," then "Beversfuyck."  fuycked up.