Communist Monuments

A grand Yugoslav memorial to the group of partisans who fought and died resisting western Serbia’s Nazi occupation.

Built as an anti-fascist tribute, this surreal Yugoslav memorial became an unwelcome symbol after the Croatian war for independence.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

The Cuban revolutionary looks over the country from its highest peak.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.

A giant bronze monument to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il is one of the most sacred sites in North Korea.

A symbol of the Workers' Party of North Korea.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

Shrapnel, dynamite, bullets and Franco couldn't destroy this bust, rescued and kept hidden as a family secret for over 40 years.

Serbia's master of striking memorials erected a forgotten, hidden gem in the hills outside a tiny village.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.