The paper will focus on the Palace of the Soviets, and the mystery of why it was never built. The current consensus is that no funds were found. But at the same time, many complementary architectural objects were built, so why did the construction of the Palace barely move forward? The objective of the paper is to demonstrate that the failure was due to the conflict between two types of logic of connection-building. The actor-network theory of John Law was used to answer the question. His idea of the existence of every object simultaneously in two spaces (physical space and network space) shows in what cases an object assembly can “fall apart”. The main sources for the study were: promotional literature, which was produced in the early stages of the construction of the object, and historical studies. It was found that the creation of the Palace as the utopian socialist symbol became a contradiction to the order of constructing a Palace as a physical object.