The Soviet statues abandoned in the Muzeon park soon found the company of ... Behind him stands a contemporary installation of 282 stone heads in a cage, symbolizing the Soviet dictator's ...

Statues and memorials built to glorify and memorialize the Soviet Union and the Red Army have been torn down -- in one case illegally, in several countries amid outrage at the Russian invasion of ...

Soviet Art Returns Amidst Russia-Ukraine War. ByAlexandra Bregman. ... The Culture Trip reported that Russia was estimated to have 7,000 Lenin monuments in concrete or stone by 2019, with 5,500 in ...

When Lithuania won its independence in 1991, it quickly rid itself of most of its prominent Soviet propaganda heritage: statues of Lenin and monuments with tanks and soldiers. In some places ...

The monument commemorates the signing in 1654 of a treaty binding Ukraine to Russian rule. The structure – a series of stone sculptures depicting the treaty’s Ukrainian and Russian signatories – was ...

Today Muscovites take yoga classes or roller-blade near the "Avenue of Leaders," which features statues of Soviet rulers such as Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev. "I consider these ...