- Built as the birthday present to Stalin on his 70th birthday, the Stalin Monument in Budapest has become the iconic scene of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956.
- 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...
- 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.
- Another heated discussion around the name of the Soviet leader has been caused by plans to erect another monument to Stalin in a South Ossetian village.
- The monument is long gone, but rubble from it is believed to remain behind the heavy doors that guard the underground space.
- On 1 February, a monument to Joseph Stalin was pompously unveiled in Volgograd, just 120 metres away from a memorial commemorating victims of political...
- Before the holding of the General Czechoslovak exhibition it was decided to establish the location of the monument to Stalin metronome.
- Under cover of darkness, Georgia takes down a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin from the central square of his hometown.
- Under cover of darkness, Georgia takes down a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin from the central square of his hometown.
- The monument quickly became a liability after Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin’s successor as Soviet leader, denounced his predecessor’s crimes.