It is just glorious. The detail and the gold and the obvious craftsmanship involved.

It's sort of a descriptor for the excesses of one system and a remarkable survivor from the excess of the next. I'm not smart enough to judge Communism as a bad system, but I am smart enough to know that as practiced in the 20th Century it was brutal and repressive to say the least.

Thanks for a great look at a marvelous artifact. Impressive indeed.