At this point most fantasy aesthetics aren't really based on medieval - or any historical - aesthetics, but rather various generic fantasy aesthetics with no real corresponding style or designs in the real world.
abandoned soviet-era radar domes, used as listening post near sary-tash in kyrgyzstan, most likely constructed to monitor the chinese border during the cold war.
today, the base remains deserted at high altitude.
One of the cooler things the communists would do was put thousands of their soldiers in historical uniforms for movies to create scale we haven’t seen since and will likely never see again