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Cité Gagarine was a housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine,
France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
. It was built by the
Communist Party of France The French Communist Party (french: Parti communiste français, ''PCF'' ; ) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its MEPs sit in the European Unit ...
government starting in 1961 and inaugurated in 1963, and was a symbol of the vibrancy of communism in France at the time. It was named for the
Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human who went to space. Gagarin attended the inauguration of the housing project in 1963. With the de-industrialization of France in the 1970s, the workforce that comprised the main part of the population of Cité Gagarine began to lose its employment, and voter affiliation with the Communist Party of France declined. Over the years, Cité Gagarine came to house more immigrants from outside of France. Cité Gagarine's demolition began in 2019 and took place over 16 months. The start of the demolition of the housing project drew crowds and made news both in France and internationally. A film made by writer-director duo Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh released in 2020, '' Gagarine'', is set on the estate as it faces impending demolition, exploring themes of isolation and community in a magical realist manner.


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