Confederate Monuments ( A Russian Solution)

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I found the park in Russia(Moscow) were in the 1990's discard communist monuments/statues were left to die. A lot of old Soviet monuments and statues were left there to die. In time the park got a name Fallen Monument Park and began a tourist attraction and by the 2000's the city of Moscow know they had something with this park with abandon monuments and statues and went in and cleaned it up and changed its name and added art from modern artist of today... There are over 700 hundred pieces of art work in this park...

I am giving a few links:

LINK: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fallen-monument-park

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Monument_Park

LINK: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/8929...led-statues-russia-has-a-fallen-monument-park

I suggest each state find some abandon area and have local communities in their state dump their unwanted Confederate statues and monuments in the design area. After a few years, go back in clean the place up give the new park a name like; "The Park of Unwanted Statues", or "The Park of Dead Confederates", and so on... It solves the problem for everyone involves in this debate.... we will call it the "Communist solution" ...

Snip... a good summary of the park... https://www.travelallrussia.com/sights/fallen-monument-park

Why Visit Fallen Monument Park
Ever wonder what happened to all the statues of Lenin from the former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries? Certainly some still stand in their original places (the one on Kiev’s Taras Shevchenko Boulevard is a favorite gathering place for Ukraine’s Communists, and most Belarusian towns seem to still maintain a spot for Ulyanovsk’s favorite son, who always seems to be pointing toward some unremarkable Khruschyovka apartment block or a post office).

However, many have vanished from the neighborhoods they once dominated. Although some have found their way to artist communities in the West (the Slovak Lenin statue that appears today in Seattle’s Fremont district accounts for only one of these missing monuments), the final disposal of many of these mass-produced works of art has remained something of a mystery.


In October 1991, a large number of Soviet-era “socialist realism” statues of its former leaders and peasant-class workers were carted off to Muzeon Park, green space near the Crimean Embankment in Moscow. After the Soviet Union broke apart, these statues were placed all along the outer edges of the park, which took on the name “Statue Park of the Central House of Artists.” Somewhere along the way, the Western expatriate community gave it the nickname of “Park of the Fallen Heroes,” or just simply “Fallen Memorial Park.”

By 1995, the collection began to include enough monuments connected with World War II that a Great Patriotic War section was established.
As the park acquired new attention, post-Soviet artist Evgeny Chubarov, started installing his own work dedicated to the victims of the Communist era. This led the way to annual summer shows of original works of art.

Nowadays, Muzeon Park’s popularity has grown as it is a nice place for a peaceful stroll during your Moscow tour and a nice spot to learn more about Russian history in general.


Snip.. Here are two short videos about the park... music in the second video, its worth the watch... lol


 
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I do get a kick out of old Soviet monuments, art and iconography.
 

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I thought people be excited about this solution...
 
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