[the invisib1e hand]

fucrissakes, you can’t post a pic?

[NonValueAdded]

That ain't your father's Volga Boat Man!

And you'd think with all that rowing, she'd be a little less Rubenesque.

[GeronL]

I think kiddie porn is still legal in Russia too. It’s not exactly a polite society.

[AnAmericanMother]

The sculpture’s a blatant rip-off of a classical goddess. I’ve seen it somewhere, but can’t recall right now. Probably Italian - Canova, maybe. Too dramatic and self-conscious for actual Greek or Roman, I think.

[TShaunK]

Them ain’t oars.Thar me sisters.

[Loyal Sedition]

“The 23-foot nude statue, sculpted in 1934, was banished from pride of place in Moscow’s Gorky Park to Ukraine in 1936”

So, is the original still in place and intact?

Comparison photo would have been nice, and why the reduced scale?

[Charles Martel]

Imitations of the statue — that did not fall foul of the state censors — were put up throughout various parks, often dressed tastefully in track suit swimwear and swimwear.

This makes me think of that old Wendy's TV commercial with the "Soviet fashion show".

[Moltke]

Forget Stalin, John Ashcroft would throw a hissy-fit over this.

[ApplegateRanch]

Looks more like the rowing prize, than a rower.