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Jun 14, 2020 · 8 A 15.5-meter granite monument to Josef Stalin that stood above Prague from 1955 is demolished by explosives in 1962. 9 Men beat a statue of British politician Cecil Rhodes in Zimbabwe after the ...
Apr 27, 2022 · A Soviet-era monument celebrating Ukraine’s bond with Russia was destroyed at the command of Kyiv’s mayor on Tuesday. The huge bronze statue stood at eight metres tall, and showed a Ukrainian...
Feb 21, 2012 · The 2007 decision in Estonia to remove a monument to a Soviet soldier — the Bronze Soldier — sparked a wave of protests from the Russian-speaking community and caused street riots in Tallinn. A...
Jul 5, 2013 · With the fall of the USSR, the thousands of Soviet statues were destroyed or dispersed. Some ended up here in the Fallen Monument Park. Also known as Art Muzeon or Park of the Fallen Heroes,...
Nov 5, 2017 · The Ukrainian Army shot up the statue for target practice while it occupied the town, sieged by separatist rebels who captured it in February 2015 at the end of one of the most devastating battles during the conflict in Ukraine’s east.
Sep 5, 2022 · “De-communisation” in Ukraine created new physical and mental spaces, with some monuments destroyed and others replaced with religious figures, flowers, or left empty. Dust and rubble remind ...
These representations of imperial claims to power contrast with the ‘heroes’ of ‘German culture’ and ‘patriotic’ art commemorated by the liberal middle classes, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1900, by Edmund Hellmer), Friedrich Schiller (1876, by Johann Schilling), Franz Schubert (1872, by Karl Kundmann), Ludwig van Beethoven ...
