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Communism

A Discarded Communist Statue From Ukraine Has a New Home in Manchester

Friedrich Engels now looks upon the city where he studied the working class.

Kelsey Kennedy August 7, 2017

Przejście

Wrocław, Poland

Przejście (Passage)

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

Exterior frontal view of one of the five buildings

North Macedonia

Little Pioneers Youth Camp

An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

The Hoff shrine

Berlin, Germany

David Hasselhoff Museum

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

The statue of a frail girl is a tribute to the millions of children who perished.

Holodomor Victims Memorial

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

An 1829 hotel and tavern built by the Society of Separatists to serve travelers on the Ohio and Erie Canal

Historic Zoar Village

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

Mural

Marinaleda, Spain

Marinaleda

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

A Lenin monument hidden in a forest. The mayor explained "It’s the last one in the region, and we never know what the next government will be like." Local youths built a table next to it that is now a popular gathering place. Horbani, Kyiv Region, July 2016.

The Hunt for Ukraine’s Toppled Lenin Statues

Photographing the hidden afterlives of Soviet monuments.

Anika Burgess May 24, 2017

Péter Mansfeld falls toward death.

Budapest, Hungary

Péter Mansfeld Monument

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

The bust of José Martí looks out upon Cuba.

José Martí Bust on Pico Turquino

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

Lenin's head looks out over all.

Sofia, Bulgaria

Museum of Socialist Art

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

Arkutino, Bulgaria

Arkutino School for Gifted Children

An unfinished complex built for children from around the world sits abandoned on the Black Sea coastline.

living room

Timișoara, Romania

Museum of the Communist Consumer

A collection of items from a way of life that no longer exists.

The Grmeč Monument to the Revolution.

Unsko-sanski kanton, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Grmeč Monument to the Revolution

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

Watch a Melodramatic Communist Ballet from 1964

A ballerina weeps over the hammer and sickle in Mao's production of "The Red Detachment of Women."

Molly McBride Jacobson January 5, 2017

Kumsusan Palace of the Sun

Pyongyang, North Korea

Kumsusan Palace of the Sun

A former palace transformed into a mausoleum for North Korea's supreme leaders.

Juche Tower.

Pyongyang, North Korea

Juche Tower

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

Freiheitsglocke

Berlin, Germany

Freedom Bell

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.