The Path and Building Metaphors in the Speeches of Vladimir Putin: Back to the Future? The road metaphor traditionally co-occurred with the building metaphor, wheresocialism was the building and the Communist party was both the architect andthe builder (Bourmeyster, 1998, p. 77).
Thus, the Party claimed to have constructedsocialism (Stalin) and to have built an advanced socialist society (Brezhnev) (id.). Itis therefore of little surprise that for the discourse of. Us and Others: Social Identities Across Languages, Discourses and Cultures - Riita Pyykkö.