 However, this coincided with widespread criticism of Modernism, which was always difficult to sustain in a still mostly agrarian country.There was also the critique that the style merely copied the forms of technology while using fairly routine construction methods.The winning entry by Boris Iofan marked the start of eclectic historicism of Stalinist Architecture, a style which bears similarities to Post-Modernism in that it reacted against modernist architecture's cosmopolitanism, alleged ugliness and inhumanity with a pick and mix of historical styles, sometimes achieved with new technology.