Communism

Not your average Bosnian cafe — this locale is dedicated to the former Yugoslav dictator Tito.

Tucked away at a quiet Latvian crossroads, this stern, larger-than-life stone bust of a teenage communist martyr remains a fascinating and rare survivor of Soviet-era political idolization.

An East German time capsule caters to nostalgic Germans and curious tourists.

A small, but very well curated, museum of cars, propaganda, and toys of socialist Bulgaria.

A curious memorial to the Berlin Wall, German division, the war, and those who died at the wall.

This piece of the Berlin Wall symbolizes the shared German and Filipino struggles for freedom.

One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.

A serendipitous meeting between a South American revolutionary and a local barman resulted in an iconic image of 20th-century art.

A quiet memorial to the victims of the Soviet-backed communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

The Vietcong leader isn’t the only symbol of late 20th-century counterculture represented in this statue.

A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?

A subtle memorial marks where a human chain protested Soviet control in 1989.

On this spot in 1989, nearly a thousand people broke through the Iron Curtain.

In the garden of a Georgia museum, without any explanation, is a monumental head of the Communist icon.

A massive relic of the communist era of Berlin.

An interactive museum-like experience takes visitors back to 1980s Communist Bulgaria.

This former atomic bunker is now the Olomouc Institute of Remembrance, telling stories of the communist era.