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> the existence of a concert hall for the performance of classical music equipped with a fairly serious looking organ does not strike me as being especially Soviet.

I took the "still looks like a socialist museum" to be referring to the second part of the sentence: "the whole interior has been left as it was 30 years ago".

The Soviet Union was always big on culture - often for nationalistic reasons.

After Stalinism subsided, the USSR spent a small fortune promoting Russian culture, esp. classical music, at home and abroad.

E.g. Warsaw in Poland was "gifted" a huge Palace of Culture and Science, which included a concert hall which was used for classical and pop concerts.

>does not strike me as being especially Soviet

Czechoslovakia was not part of the Soviet Union.

I stand corrected and reminded.

you should check out also UFO bridge in same city, interesting commie architecture and right next to it Hong Kong residential area of central Europe