Stalin Still Lives?

The question above might seem rather strange - could good old Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (AKA Uncle Joe, AKA Joseph Stalin) physically be alive? Well, no. But his spirit is flying high these days especially in the EU. A couple days ago I went to the official opening of the Polish National Football Stadium in Warsaw - a truly magnificent structure. It's the new National Stadium in Poland and is to host games at the Euro 2012 tournament. So why do I bring up the beautiful new stadium and Stalin in the same paragraph? Because when I arrived there the first thing I thought about was the Stalinesque nature of the whole project (the Euro 2012 organization in Poland/Ukraine and the construction of the stadium itself). The thing cost Polish taxpayers (yes, even those who couldn't give a damn about football) 1 569 370 000 Polish Zloty. That is just over 41 Zloty per person. The opening day was quite an occasion, I had to stand in line with a friend for a while before we got in to see the inside of the still unfinished structure. It seems the whole of Warsaw came to see the stadium, there were literally tens of thousands of people that came. All the children were waving around little flags and everyone was marching along and taking photos. The organizers were bragging how much money they saved on building the stadium. I think I was the only person there thinking about how grotesque the whole situation was. It reminded me of some pictures of the opening of the 1955 Stadium in Warsaw which was termed "a gift from Stalin to the Polish people". Ironically this new stadium is built where the old one was demolished just a couple years back - exactly on top of it. But this one is the gift of the Prime Minister and of the EU, not of Stalin. Isn't a famous characteristic ascribed to Communism and Fascism by historians precisely the construction of huge and unnecessary monuments to impress the people and the world? I learned this in high school - but I guess in today's schools most of what is taught is Euro-socialist and Fascist propaganda... Either way my friend who came with me (a stereotypical product of the Polish education system) seemed highly impressed with the stadium and looked at me in a funny way when I mentioned the Stalinist aspects.
Am I the only one who appreciates the irony?