Communist Monuments

Cool Soviet-era public sculpture outside the Kyrgyz National Academy of Sciences on Chuy Ave.

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

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

A deserted site of Yugoslav remembrance.

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

A Soviet-style monument, built after transferring the remains of heroes from their graves.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

For decades, Hungary's Communist Party insisted this gulag had never existed.

This Soviet statue is based on a piece of propaganda that's been elevated to national myth.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

Abstract monuments express sorrow and resilience at the site of a horrific massacre in Nazi-occupied Serbia.

Curious carved stones and bird-like wings are a symbol of Serbian resilience and freedom on the site of a WWII massacre.

An abandoned monument remembering the "Pančevo Holocaust" now stands as a shadow of its former self.

This symbol of Yugoslav liberation decorated with 620 carved heads of mythical creatures is now a forlorn relic of another time.