Museum of the Fallen (and Beheaded) Heroes
After passing by Gorky Park, I went to the Sculpture Park. Formerly called the Museum of the Fallen Heroes, it houses statues of commie leaders that were ripped from their pedestals after the end of the Soviet Union.
Here are 4 Lenin's, 1 Stalin and 1 Brezhnev:
Here is something really big:
Here are Lenin, Marx and Brezhnev:
This one is cool. It is a statue of Stalin, surrounded by heads representing millions of purge victims. It was NOT done during the Soviet days of course...
This is a huge fallen Stalin... literally...
There were also some news sculptures in the park. I am attaching the ones I liked the most: Don Quijote and Einstein (sitting next to someone I don't know)
Across the street from the Sculpture Park is the infamous statue of Peter the Great. This statue was supposed to be of Christopher Columbus and given as a gift to the US. When the Americans saw how ugly this shit was, they refused it and sent it back. The Russians then chopped Columbus' head off, rebranded it as Peter the Great and put it on the embankment of the Moscow river. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour on the other side of the river.









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