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A Russian lawmaker said the Statue of Liberty should be moved to Russia. The Statue of Liberty is seen on October 11, 2022, in New York City. Michael M. Santiago ...
There are plenty of statues to Vladimir Lenin scattered across Russia, and even a handful of likenesses of Joseph Stalin and Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet secret police. But Friday ...
Volgograd's epic World War II memorial gets a touch-up. 1 The Motherland Calls statue, in Russia’s southern city of Volgograd, on October 16 after scaffolding was partly removed following ...
Brutalism emerged as a style of modernist architecture in Great Britain after World War II. It soon spread throughout the world and was particularly embraced in the Soviet Union.
A view of the Dom Korabl (Ship Building), stretching along a main street for 400 meters (1,300 feet) after a fire broke out in one of the apartments in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024.
In Russia, they tore down lots of statues, but… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) ...
A gold thumb, crushed Statue of Liberty and satirical quotes are all part of a new statue generating a buzz along the ...
That statue, however, was taken down during the "de-Stalinisation" era of the 1960s. Under the regime of Putin, portrayals of the infamous Soviet leader have started to resurface throughout Russia.
One of Russia's most important war memorials, a huge statue towering over the southern city of Volgograd, is in danger of collapsing, an official says. The Motherland statue is leaning at such a ...
But the majority of Russia’s statues of Soviet heroes met a rather different fate. Most were torn from their pedestals in 1991’s coup, and relocated to Muzeon (formerly known as Fallen ...
The Kremlin has mostly focused on erecting new statues, not restoring those demolished in the 1990s. Among the new additions is a towering monument to Lt. Gen. Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, the designer ...