Above, workers load a statue of KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinsky on a flatbed truck after it was toppled in Moscow on Aug. 23, 1991. Above, workers load a statue of KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinsky on a flatbed truck after it was toppled in Moscow on Aug. 23, 1991.For more than 30 years, a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet Union's feared secret police, stood guard in front of the KGB headquarters on Moscow's Lubyanka Square.
"It's one thing what statues mean when they are in conspicuous sites, in main squares and big streets," says Lipman."It's quite another thing when statues like that are collected among many others in a park." Natasha Zamkovaya, strolling past Brezhnev with a friend, agrees that the monuments are needed to preserve the past. And the same applies to controversial statues in the United States, she says."I'm against just sweeping away monuments. Those people had some sort of authority, their statues didn't just stand there for nothing," says Zamkovaya, 27."They're also a part of American history.
The Stalin statue itself is a curiosity because it once stood in the Soviet pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York, together with a pink granite Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union. When the statues returned from the United States, Stalin's went to Moscow and Lenin's to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
The peculiarly Russian aversion to pulling down statues has led President Vladimir Putin's spokesman to lament the current trend in the United States.of President Theodore Roosevelt at New York's Museum of Natural History, and of a Russian colonial governor in Sitka, Alaska.
Is Poo-tin's head in there somewhere?
Don’t be like Moscow.
maurlind How very sensible!
This is creepy and prob wouldn’t go over well here. And why preserve them at all?
Why dont you come up with something new? There's enough creativity in the US to do it.
I hope the Russian slang or unofficial name for this place is something like 'Stone Heads In Jail' or 'Decapitated Rock Garden'. I'd be curious to know how it is referred to colloquially in Russia, if anyone knows.
The argument that statues=history is one of the silliest & probably most disingenuous I've ever heard. Statues are a statement about values. So is pulling them down.
Lithuania also has park dedicated to fallen Soviet union statues. Hidden away in a forest, out of sight, but never to be forgotten for what they did.
This look like the Many Faced God’s collection.
interesting
Seems like a good way to preserve them
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