• "But the Stalin monument stood in Prague for nearly seven years," he adds. "No one ever needed it." Svec's Stalin monument towers over Prague in 1955.
  • They opened the monument in a solemn atmosphere - wreaths were laid at the memorial, and veterans read several poems dedicated to Stalin.
  • This event once again makes us think about the paradoxical status of Stalin in the history of Russia, reflected like a mirror in the monuments erected to him.
  • Dismantling of the monument to Stalin in Ulan-Bator on the night of December 22, 1990. In 1986, in Mongolia, as in the USSR, a course was taken to restructure.
  • This marks a turnaround from 2010, when 25% of Russians expressed support for a Stalin monument compared with 36% who opposed it.
  • Built as the birthday present to Stalin on his 70th birthday (December 21st 1949), the Stalin Monument in Budapest has became the iconic scene of the...
  • The monument is long gone, but rubble from it is believed to remain behind the heavy doors that guard the underground space.
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