Check out the monument blending Soviet nostalgia with space age aesthetics

Russian officials are celebrating 100 years of the Soviet Union’s idealistic Communist youth group with an abstract monument that puts a futuristic twist on socialist nostalgia.

The three shimmering pillars are set to be installed in the city of Yaroslavl by the end of the year to mark a century since the founding of the Komsomol, the youth wing of the Russian Communist party.

The digitally-designed sculptures are hoped to evoke images of “fluttering flags,” or a youthful “desire for incomprehensible utopian peaks.”

Costing over 16 million rubles ($247,000), the project is just one part of a wider drive to transform Yaroslavl’s Vstrecha Square into a focal point for the city.