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Every town plaza, schoolyard,
library, and just about any other public space was
blessed/gifted/cursed with a statue of some notable of the Soviet era,
be it Lenin or Stalin, or any other of their cast of personalities.
After the events of 1992, many of these statues were smashed or
melted, or tossed in the river. Someone had the idea to salvage
some of the statues and save them in a Moscow sculpture park.
The guide kept referring to the park as a 'park of fallen idols'.
So, I was expecting a park devoted solely to various renditions
of Lenin and Brezhnev, etc. It turned out to be a
rather interesting park in and of its own right, with some interesting
works that had nothing to do with the old grey leaders of the Soviet
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I thought this was hot. |
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Three Lenins |
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you can see where this Lenin was broken, just above
the hands. They did a pretty good job of patching Humpty back together
again. In the background was some sort of monument to the
glories of the Soviet Union. |
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This Stalin was toppled, and the face was damaged. |
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A wall of stone faces, imprisoned behind bars, behind
Stalin. The barbed wire and industrial lamps reinforce the bleak
aspect of the installation. |
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