Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International was to:
A) have a revolving cone inside it.
B) be 1300 feet tall.
C) have a revolving cylinder inside it.
D) be a fantastic double spiral.
E) All of the answers are correct.

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Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International, also known as Tatlin's Tower, was a grandiose design that combined ambitious architectural and engineering ideas. It was planned to be approximately 1300 feet tall, making it taller than the Eiffel Tower. The design included a double helix structure, which can be described as a "fantastic double spiral." Inside this structure, there were to be three major geometric shapes (a cube, a pyramid, and a cylinder) that would rotate at different speeds: the cube was to complete a rotation once a year, the pyramid once a month, and the cylinder once a day. This design was intended to house the government offices of the Comintern (the Communist International), making it a symbol of modernity, revolution, and the utopian aspirations of the Soviet regime in the early 1920s. However, it was never built due to practical and financial constraints.

Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International Was To