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Khimki War Memorial; Leningrad Hero City Obelisk; Liberty Statue (Budapest) Mamayev Kurgan; Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics; Memorial to Polish Soldiers and German Anti-Fascists; Memorial to the Victims of the Deportation of 1944; Monument to the Conquerors of Space; Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist ...
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, many of the memorials, especially the ones dedicated to the activities of Soviet Armed Forces in former Soviet Bloc countries during World War II, have been removed, relocated, altered or have had their meaning reinterpreted (such as the Liberty Statue in Budapest).
Soviet military memorials and cemeteries (4 C, 38 P) Pages in category "Monuments and memorials built in the Soviet Union" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
Memorial of Glory (Tiraspol) Memorial to Polish Soldiers and German Anti-Fascists; Memorial to the Soviet Internationalist Soldier; Monument to Soviet Tank Crews; Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders; The Motherland Calls; Mound of Glory; Mound of Immortality
The controversial Bronze Soldier of Tallinn monument, vandalized in protest of the Russian invasion on Ukraine, 12 April 2022.. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that had commenced in February 2022, a number of Soviet-era monuments and memorials were demolished or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced in former Eastern Bloc Soviet satellite states, as well as several ...
This article is a list of current and former known monuments of Vladimir Lenin.Many of the monuments in former Soviet republics and people's republics were removed after the fall of the Soviet Union, while some of these countries, mainly Russia and Belarus, retained the thousands of Lenin statues that were erected during the Soviet period.
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ratified the convention on 12 October 1988. [3] Five sites, all cultural, were inscribed at the 14th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, in 1990.
Several "Sculpture Parks" have been established in post-Soviet states to display Communist-era statues in a museum environment: There is a display of Soviet statues in Grutas Park (promoted to tourists as "Stalin World") near Druskininkai in Lithuania. The open-air Muzeon Park of Arts in Moscow, Russia has over 600 Soviet-era statues.