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Soviet Unterzoegersdorf Sector II
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Soviet Modernism
House of Fashion, Belarus, Minsk. Built 1960s-70s. Architects: E. Levina, V. Gerashchenko, G. Svyatsky with B. Larchenko, relief Solidarity by sculptor A. Artimovich.
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A gift to the UN from the Soviet Union in 1959. On the side, it says "We shall beat our swords into plowshears." Ironically, this is a passage from the book of Isaiah in the Bible, a book the Soviets did not preach.
Grutas Park is the repository of old Soviet era statues and artifacts that were removed from public places at the end of Soviet Occupation.
Grūto Parkas
Druskininkai
Lietuva 2009
The Soviet War Memorial near the Brandenburg Gate was erected in what was to be the British Sector of the city shortly after the fall of berlin the Red Army. The fact that it was in the British Sector led to there always being Soviet Army contingent, albeit small, in the Western part of the city to guard the Memorial. That arrangment continued until the re-unification of Berlin.
Again at the Antiques Fair.
Two models of the USSR memorial to space exploration, a huge badge in the shape of a Soviet tank plus a tower of some sort.
Busts of Marshal Ivan Bagramyan (1897-19820, Colonel-General Alexander Rodimtsev (1905-1977) and Army General Mykola Vatutin (1901-1944)