{"id":4699,"date":"2023-02-17T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2023-05-10T13:27:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T10:27:11","slug":"lenin-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/en\/lenin-park\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Parks of Soviet Sculpture That Are Worth Visiting"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"hero-post__block default-block\" id=\"hero-post-block_37f01c1e837d4fd9e4a6177a323bce1d\">\r\n    <div class=\"text-container\">\r\n        <div class=\"hero-post__title\">\r\n            <h1 style=\"color:#474444\">5 Parks of Soviet Sculpture \r\nThat Are Worth Visiting<\/h1>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"hero-post__media\">\r\n            \n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DSC_4806.jpg\"\n     srcset=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DSC_4806.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DSC_4806-768x520.jpg 768w\"\n     sizes=\"100%\"\n         alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\n\n        <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"hero-post__meta\">\r\n                <p class=\"heading--h4\">11.09.2020<\/p>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n                            <div class=\"hero-post__intro wysiwyg\">\r\n                <p><strong>What to do with Lenins in 21st century? You can destroy and throw them away, but there were lots of them in every region, town, village. What about bringing them all in one place and arranging a kind of Leninland? Read about five Lenin parks in different countries and Ukraine too!<\/strong><\/p>\n            <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\n\n\r\n    <section class=\"title-default__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom \"\r\n             id=\"title-block--block_42e91218cee368bc0a2093c054289058\">\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\r\n            <div class=\"title-default__content\r\n\"\r\n                 style=\"background-color: \">\r\n                <h2 style=\"color: #474444\">Memento Park. Budapest, Hungary<\/h2>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n<section class=\"text-default__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom\"\r\n         id=\"text--block_0917208155c0fdebb259a872654d81ee\">\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"text-container \">\r\n                <div class=\"text-default__block-grid \">\r\n\r\n                            <div class=\"text-default__content wysiwyg\">\r\n                    <p>Probably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mementopark.hu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the most famous open-air museum<\/a> of Soviet sculpture. Here you can see almost cubist Marx and Engels, huge boots of Stalin, a statue of B\u00e9la Kun and other local communist figures. Soviet songs in the Hungarian language complement the atmosphere, a classic GDR-made Trabant car and a telephone booth from which you can &#8220;call&#8221; Lenin, Brezhnev, Khrushchev or Gorbachev. And they&#8217;ll even say something back.<\/p>\n                <\/div>\r\n            \r\n            \r\n                    <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\n\n\r\n    <section class=\"two-images__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom\"\r\n             id=\"image--block_8a3a682d75e7eb854534b105ca994bf5\">\r\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"two-images__grid lightbox-gallery-js\">\r\n                                    <div class=\"two-images__row mixed--landscape-first\">\r\n                                                                            <div class=\"two-images__row-item two-images__row-item--left mixed--landscape-first\">\r\n\r\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Memento_Park_Budapes.jpg\"\r\n                                   class=\"lightbox-gallery-item-js two-images__row-media mixed--landscape-first\">\r\n                          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<\/div>\r\n                        \r\n                                                    <div class=\"two-images__row-info\">\r\n                                                                    <div class=\"two-images__row-caption\">\r\n                                        <p class=\"text--caption\">MEMENTO PARK, Budapest, Hungary<\/p>\r\n                                    <\/div>\r\n                                                                                                    <div class=\"two-images__row-caption\">\r\n                                        <p class=\"text--copyright\">Photo from www.mementopark.hu<\/p>\r\n                                    <\/div>\r\n                                                            <\/div>\r\n                                            <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n    <section class=\"title-default__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom \"\r\n             id=\"title-block--block_14246177ecf64ab273c5d3ca5fbf6d81\">\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\r\n            <div class=\"title-default__content\r\n\"\r\n                 style=\"background-color: \">\r\n                <h2 style=\"color: #474444\">Frumushika-Nova. Odesa region, Ukraine<\/h2>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n<section class=\"text-default__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom\"\r\n         id=\"text--block_7234ad6895fe7d326cb0737838d71c60\">\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"text-container \">\r\n                <div class=\"text-default__block-grid \">\r\n\r\n                            <div class=\"text-default__content wysiwyg\">\r\n                    <p>Museum of the Socialist Realist Monuments is only a part of <a href=\"https:\/\/frumushika.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an ethnographic complex &#8220;Frumushika-Nova&#8221;<\/a>, but a mighty one. Here there&#8217;s an Alley of Lenins, Soviet female workers, Trotsky, Gorky, many busts, bas-reliefs and even a few aircrafts \u2014 already 130 exhibits, most of which the founder Alexander Palariev collected before the start of decommunisation. The whole complex attempts to revive the memory of the Moldovan village destroyed after the Second World War with its traditional houses, sheep breeding, winemaking and agriculture. The attempt was successful, and every year thousands of tourists visit Frumushika, despite the difficult road.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about monuments of the Soviet regime in Ukraine in conversation with photographer Yevgen Nikiforov\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastfutureart.org\/en\/leninfall\">&#8220;Leninopad and the Journey of Engels from Poltava to Manchester&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n                <\/div>\r\n            \r\n            \r\n                    <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\n\n\r\n    <section class=\"two-images__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom\"\r\n             id=\"image--block_2af15259b87edf1247c3d8d06be6d3bb\">\r\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"two-images__grid lightbox-gallery-js\">\r\n                                    <div class=\"two-images__row mixed--landscape-first\">\r\n                                                                            <div class=\"two-images__row-item two-images__row-item--left mixed--landscape-first\">\r\n\r\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1_21.jpg\"\r\n                                   class=\"lightbox-gallery-item-js two-images__row-media mixed--landscape-first\">\r\n                                    <figure>\r\n                                        \n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1_21-768x541.jpg\"\n     srcset=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1_21-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1_21.jpg 1000w\"\n     sizes=\"100%\"\n         alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\n\n                                                                            <\/figure>\r\n                                <\/a>\r\n\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        \r\n                                                                            <div class=\"two-images__row-item two-images__row-item--right mixed--landscape-first\">\r\n\r\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DSC_4806.jpg\"\r\n                                   class=\"lightbox-gallery-item-js two-images__row-media mixed--landscape-first\">\r\n                                    <figure>\r\n                                        \n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DSC_4806-768x520.jpg\"\n     srcset=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DSC_4806-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/DSC_4806.jpg 1000w\"\n     sizes=\"100%\"\n         alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\n\n                                                                            <\/figure>\r\n                                <\/a>\r\n\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        \r\n                                                    <div class=\"two-images__row-info\">\r\n                                                                    <div class=\"two-images__row-caption\">\r\n                                        <p class=\"text--caption\">Museum of the Socialist Realist Monuments, Frumushika-Nova, Odesa region, Ukraine.<\/p>\r\n                                    <\/div>\r\n                                                                                                    <div class=\"two-images__row-caption\">\r\n                                        <p class=\"text--copyright\">Photo from www.frumushika.com<\/p>\r\n                                    <\/div>\r\n                                                            <\/div>\r\n                                            <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n    <section class=\"title-default__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom \"\r\n             id=\"title-block--block_6a7f35b72cc7b8a32568ddaf12d03ac1\">\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\r\n            <div class=\"title-default__content\r\n\"\r\n                 style=\"background-color: \">\r\n                <h2 style=\"color: #474444\">Gr\u016btas park. Druskininkai, Lithuania<\/h2>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n<section class=\"text-default__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom\"\r\n         id=\"text--block_64e1a786ea1536d402e509b033968d32\">\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"text-container \">\r\n                <div class=\"text-default__block-grid \">\r\n\r\n                            <div class=\"text-default__content wysiwyg\">\r\n                    <p>Wooden walkways, guard towers, barbed wire fences \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/grutoparkas.lt\/en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this park<\/a> was created to remind of the atmosphere of the Gulag camps. The collection includes traditional monuments of leaders and party figures, posters with propaganda art, military equipment and a separate narrow-gauge railway exhibition. And then there&#8217;s the cafe and the zoo and the children&#8217;s attractions, and it&#8217;s all in the area of 30 football fields. The park has been controversial since its opening in 2001; some radical ideas have not been implemented, for example, the gulag train that was supposed to carry visitors.<\/p>\n                <\/div>\r\n            \r\n            \r\n                    <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\n\n\r\n    <section class=\"two-images__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom\"\r\n             id=\"image--block_827c69d38babf726a3b3be4faf1a744f\">\r\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"two-images__grid lightbox-gallery-js\">\r\n                                    <div class=\"two-images__row default square\">\r\n                                                                            <div class=\"two-images__row-item two-images__row-item--left default square\">\r\n\r\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/61.jpg\"\r\n                                   class=\"lightbox-gallery-item-js two-images__row-media default square\">\r\n                                    <figure>\r\n                                        \n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/61-768x576.jpg\"\n     srcset=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/61-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/61.jpg 1200w\"\n     sizes=\"100%\"\n         alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\n\n                                                                            <\/figure>\r\n                                <\/a>\r\n\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        \r\n                                                                            <div class=\"two-images__row-item two-images__row-item--right default square\">\r\n\r\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/P9050007.jpg\"\r\n                                   class=\"lightbox-gallery-item-js two-images__row-media default square\">\r\n                                    <figure>\r\n                                        \n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/P9050007-768x576.jpg\"\n     srcset=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/P9050007-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/P9050007.jpg 1200w\"\n     sizes=\"100%\"\n         alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\n\n                                                                            <\/figure>\r\n                                <\/a>\r\n\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        \r\n                                                    <div class=\"two-images__row-info\">\r\n                                                                    <div class=\"two-images__row-caption\">\r\n                                        <p class=\"text--caption\">Gr\u016btas Park, Druskininkai, Lithuania<\/p>\r\n                                    <\/div>\r\n                                                                                                    <div class=\"two-images__row-caption\">\r\n                                        <p class=\"text--copyright\">Photos from www.grutoparkas.lt<\/p>\r\n                                    <\/div>\r\n                                                            <\/div>\r\n                                            <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n    <section class=\"title-default__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom \"\r\n             id=\"title-block--block_8c33f6f54b55c9814dbe26ae142f7f94\">\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\r\n            <div class=\"title-default__content\r\n\"\r\n                 style=\"background-color: \">\r\n                <h2 style=\"color: #474444\">Museum of the Partisan Glory &quot;Spadchansky Forest&quot;. Putyvl, Ukraine<\/h2>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n<section class=\"text-default__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom\"\r\n         id=\"text--block_849111522e14f69950c068e45659e6c8\">\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"text-container \">\r\n                <div class=\"text-default__block-grid \">\r\n\r\n                            <div class=\"text-default__content wysiwyg\">\r\n                    <p>In the state reserve in Sumy region, you will find what you expect: a collection of artefacts from the history of the Ukrainian partisan movement and personal belongings of Semen Kowpak and other World War II figures. A separate open-air exhibition is the Park of the Soviet period. Everyone is here: Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Kotovsky, Shchors, Chapayev, Kirov, soldier and mother, pioneers, Mayakovsky and Gagarin. Such a neighbourhood is an exciting example of a park, in which &#8220;official&#8221; tyrants are mixed with cultural figures simply on the basis of time.<\/p>\n                <\/div>\r\n            \r\n            \r\n                    <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\n\n\r\n    <section class=\"two-images__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom\"\r\n             id=\"image--block_14f6894f17c9762079b8fe9a7a2e6cd0\">\r\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"two-images__grid lightbox-gallery-js\">\r\n                                    <div class=\"two-images__row default landscape\">\r\n                                                                            <div class=\"two-images__row-item two-images__row-item--left default landscape\">\r\n\r\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/70684017_22762538658.jpg\"\r\n                                   class=\"lightbox-gallery-item-js two-images__row-media default landscape\">\r\n                                    <figure>\r\n                                        \n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/70684017_22762538658-768x576.jpg\"\n     srcset=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/70684017_22762538658-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/70684017_22762538658.jpg 960w\"\n     sizes=\"100%\"\n         alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\n\n                                                                            <\/figure>\r\n                                <\/a>\r\n\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        \r\n                                                                            <div class=\"two-images__row-item two-images__row-item--right default landscape\">\r\n\r\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/70311777_22762547224.jpg\"\r\n                                   class=\"lightbox-gallery-item-js two-images__row-media default landscape\">\r\n                                    <figure>\r\n                                        \n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/70311777_22762547224-768x576.jpg\"\n     srcset=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/70311777_22762547224-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/70311777_22762547224.jpg 960w\"\n     sizes=\"100%\"\n         alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\n\n                                                                            <\/figure>\r\n                                <\/a>\r\n\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        \r\n                                                    <div class=\"two-images__row-info\">\r\n                                                                    <div class=\"two-images__row-caption\">\r\n                                        <p class=\"text--caption\">Park of the Soviet period, Museum of the Partisan Glory &#8220;Spadchansky Forest&#8221;, Putyvl, Ukraine<\/p>\r\n                                    <\/div>\r\n                                                                                                    <div class=\"two-images__row-caption\">\r\n                                        <p class=\"text--copyright\">Photo by Volodymyr Bykov<\/p>\r\n                                    <\/div>\r\n                                                            <\/div>\r\n                                            <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n    <section class=\"title-default__block default-block default-block--no-padding-bottom \"\r\n             id=\"title-block--block_209d18d40abf615c5e1ca2a4e329cec5\">\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\r\n            <div class=\"title-default__content\r\n\"\r\n                 style=\"background-color: \">\r\n                <h2 style=\"color: #474444\">Alley of Soviet Monuments. Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan<\/h2>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n<section class=\"text-default__block default-block\"\r\n         id=\"text--block_d4c58e911138c7d02bc625e4d481ae39\">\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"text-container \">\r\n                <div class=\"text-default__block-grid \">\r\n\r\n                            <div class=\"text-default__content wysiwyg\">\r\n                    <p>There is a Lenin park in one Kazakh city \u2014 various Soviet monuments were gathered and placed along the alley. While repairing the central pedestal, someone left an inscription on fresh cement: &#8220;Gods&#8221;. Is this a joke or a sign of admiration?<\/p>\n<p>Park in Ust-Kamenogorsk is one of many in Kazakhstan. The attitude to the Soviet Union in different cities was different, and accordingly, the Soviet monumental heritage was perceived in different ways. We learned about what is happening today and whether it is possible to talk about decommunisation in Kazakhstan from researcher Kulshat Medeuova. Read her most interesting thoughts in the text &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/en\/post-soviet-kazakhstan-and-memory\/\">Hacking Lenin: the Fate of Soviet Monuments in Kazakhstan&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n                <\/div>\r\n            \r\n            \r\n                    <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\n\n\r\n    <section class=\"single-image__block default-block\"\r\n             id=\"image--block_de4904064f72f6d6060817a96ed99be4\">\r\n\r\n        <figure>\r\n            <div class=\"text-container\">\r\n                \n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Copy_of_IMG_4732.jpg\"\n     srcset=\"https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Copy_of_IMG_4732.jpg 1680w, https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Copy_of_IMG_4732-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Copy_of_IMG_4732-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/pastfutureart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Copy_of_IMG_4732-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\"\n     sizes=\"100%\"\n         alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\n\n            <\/div>\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"text-container\">\r\n\r\n                                    <figcaption class=\"img-caption__default wysiwyg\">\r\n                        <div class=\"text--caption\">Alley of Soviet Monuments, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan<\/div>\r\n                        <div class=\"text--copyright\">Photo by Kulshat Medeuova<\/div>\r\n                    <\/figcaption>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <\/figure>\r\n    <\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-texts-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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