Russian Wikipedia is kind enough to provide construction photos
I notice two things - the foundation of the cathedral appears to have been excavated - and the domes were in place long before it being finished
Here's my interpretation
This "cathedral" was built on a pre-existing foundation
Something was there before - and a mysterious event completely absent from history books destroyed it
Noticing that Western Europe has preserved a lot of its historical architecture ...
... while Eastern Europe has very little of it, the conclusion is pretty clear
There was a war, a big one - and the East lost it. Badly.
The winners were ruthless, they completely obliterated the cities of the vanquished
And they erased their history
The peoples of the East now learned that they never had any culture, they had always been illiterate and barefoot - and all human achievement came from a small strip of land in Western Europe
How nice of them to tell us where their base of operations is
Furthermore, if there's any truth to the date of construction given, this disaster must have happened no later than the middle of the 19th century
The weaponry used in the war must have been of such destructive power that it caused an environmental disaster
It is my firm opinion that the "mud flood" never happened - the layer of soil covering the first floor of all old buildings was simply the fallout of the giant detonations raining back down
Judging by the few remaining pictures, the weaponry used plasma
I believe this explains quite nicely what Lenin's gang was all about
It's known that Russia, at the time, was subordinated to the Anglosphere
It's known that the Bolsheviks received Western financing
So why the orgy of destruction ?
The only explanation for the destruction of property and massacring of urban populations was that, at the time, there were still quite a few people who remembered the Old World
There were still people around who knew how the suppressed tech functioned
- we live in a consciousness-actuated hologram
- our bodies are engineered to host a much diminished form of consciousness
- we seem to get recycled back here after we die with our memories erased
- there is an AI at work here, judging by the numerology
so far, I've been able to find 2 coherent yet conflicting interpretations here
First, the "hermetic" one
We're newly-hatched fractals of the Cosmic Consciousness - as such, we're confined to a benign sandbox until we learn to use our creative powers responsibly
Second, the "gnostic" one
We're trapped inside a false reality created by an evil Demiurge and his Archons
There is no rhyme and reason to anything that happens to us, it's all meant to prevent us from looking inwards
Apparently, a single true memory would be enough ...
Judging by the photographic evidence, it seems to have been destroyed by the same bombardment that destroyed the rest of the Old World
A while later - I'm thinking two or three generations, during which the survivors were brainwashed - this sort of creep pops up and writes "Botosani's first monograph"