Labor Movement Mausoleum inside Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest, Hungary. Completed 1958. Communist memorial in the former Eastern Bloc.
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Warsaw Uprising Monument
Warsaw Uprising Monument in Poland. Completed in 1989 by Jacek Budyn and Wincenty Kućma. Communist monument in the former Eastern Bloc.
Memorial Mother
Memorial Mother in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Orginally completed in 1961 and remodelled in 1974. Socialist memorial in the former Yugoslavia.
Workers’ Movement Memorial
Workers’ Movement Memorial, part of Memento Park in Budapest, Hungary. Created in 1976. Communist monument in the former Eastern Bloc.
Republic of Councils Monument
Republic of Councils Monument in Memento Park, Budapest. Completed in 1969. Communist monument in the former Eastern Bloc.
Statue to Martyrs of the Revolution
Statue to Martyrs of the Revolution in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan. Completed in 1978. Soviet-era monument in the former USSR.
Freedom Monument
Freedom Monument in Panevezys, Lithuania, Baltic States. Statue of a woman completed in 1974. Soviet monument in the former USSR.
Monument to Atomic Power
Monument to Atomic Power in the once-closed city of Sillamäe, Estonia. Completed in 1987. Soviet style monument in the former USSR.
Island of Tears
Island of Tears in Minsk, Belarus. Constructed between 1988 and 1996. Alternative name: Island of Courage and Sorrow. Soviet memorial in the former USSR.
Mother Albania
Mother Albania in Tirana. Created in 1971 by sculptors Kristaq Rama, Muntaz Dhrami and Shaban Hadërri. Communist monument in the former Eastern Bloc.
Gazimestan Monument
Gazimestan Monument near Pristina, Kosovo. Completed in 1953 by Aleksandar Deroko. Socialist war memorial in the former Yugoslavia.
Memorial to Glory
Memorial to Glory in Kremenets, Ukraine, eastern Europe. World War II Memorial in front of the Jesuit College. Soviet memorial in the former USSR.