(Crappy Totalitarian Art) The Weirdest Monuments Of The Communist Era That Are Still Standing

IO9 ^ | Nov 14, 2012 | Vincze Miklos

[DesertRhino]

Dude,, thats seriously funny! lol

[DrDavid]

Then there is the monument in Vienna that the Soviets built to commemorate their departure.

[wolficatZ]

The Kiev memorial is hardly “crappy”.

“I’m originally from Kiev, and the WWII museum that the mother motherland is standing on is a really awesome museum.

That dome right below her, you can see giant windows in it - it’s really huge, and the walls/ceiling (lol it’s a dome) has the names of all the Soviet people who died in the war.

Well, that’s what i remember...like 6 million of us died, so maybe it’s not all of them...but still, i went there when i was like 10, and i remember it clearly, it’s quite powerful.”

Compare it to real “crap” over here, MLK’s “Chinesed Thug”, Eisenhower’s “Little Kid”, or the Flight 93 “Crescent of Embrace”.

[Jack Hydrazine]

They forgot to mention the Lenin statue in the Fremont district of Seattle.

[piasa]

Looks like the artist could use a lot of help with anatomy; the central figure holding the large tongue depressor looks like it was hit by a truck, allowed to stiffen and was then propped back up in some scrap from a decommissioned factory.

[driftless2]

This article screws up some facts. The Buzludzha monument is in Bulgaria. Bulgaria was never part of Yugoslavia.

[BenLurkin]

[dfwgator]

[BenLurkin]

Now that is how to build an embassey!

[dfwgator]

That pales in comparison to Mamyev Kurgan, which commemorated the Battle of Stalingrad

[BenLurkin]

Speaking of Los Angeles (and ugly buildings)...

[BenLurkin]

[Jimmy Valentine]

"But that Kiev War memorial is a normal large statue"

Been there. The style is called "Socialist Realism" (not kidding). The actual war museum, particularly the interior is very affecting.

There is another memorial in Balaclava in Crimea built on a hill. What you come to realize is that you are standing on a giant mass grave.

Ukraine really took a battering during "The Great Patriotic War."

[MeshugeMikey]

I believe this sort of Architecture is referred to as Brutalism. Odd yes!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Chevy on a Stick, corner of Gibson and San Mateo, Albuquerque.

[martin_fierro]

"Floating White Trash Trailer Down By The River"

[MeshugeMikey]

isn’t that....yes...the Clinton Library??