^ Ha la la, cousin, the Soviets were so rough to build things like this up to the early 80s.
I say it's communist atheism and materialism. Those backward Communism and Nationalism... They pretend hating one other, but both are the very same in the end.
Decadence.
As soon as I saw the building, it reminded me of an episode of a favorite comic series (from Belgium, as often) inspired by the US Union army during their civil war.
You see that weird armored confederate/nazi thing with cannons? That's it.
I'm not even sure torturing mice to death would still be helpful for contemporary science, but that building should be preserved.
I actually find it interesting, as a piece of our Euro memory.