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  2. List of statues of Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia

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    A bust of Stalin in the village of Chokh, Dagestan (42.319722, 47.031167). A bust of Stalin at a square in Derbent, Dagestan (42.054718, 48.310115). A bust of Stalin in the town of Dagestanskiye Ogni, Dagestan (until 2021). [17] Bust of Stalin near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum alongside those of Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky. [18]

  3. Stalin Monument (Budapest) - Wikipedia

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    The Stalin Monument (Hungarian: Sztálin szobor, pronounced [ˈstaːlin ˈsobor]) was a statue of Joseph Stalin in Budapest, Hungary. Completed in December 1951 as a "gift to Joseph Stalin from the Hungarians on his seventieth birthday", it was torn down on October 23, 1956, by enraged anti-Soviet crowds during Hungary's October Revolution .

  4. Soviet-era statues - Wikipedia

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    Statues that represented Stalin's cult of personality were subsequently removed from most public spaces in the Soviet Union and its satellite states as part of a process of "De-Stalinization". The only statue of Stalin in Budapest, Hungary , was destroyed by citizens during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution ; no replacement was ever made.

  5. Stalin Monument (Prague) - Wikipedia

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    Stalin's Monument (Czech: Stalinův pomník) was a 15.5 m (51 ft) granite statue honoring Joseph Stalin in Prague, Czechoslovakia. It was unveiled on 1 May 1955 after more than 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 years of work, and was the world's largest representation of Stalin. The sculpture was demolished in late 1962.

  6. History of the Soviet Union (1953–1964) - Wikipedia

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    After Stalin died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. However the central figure in the immediate post-Stalin period was the former head of the state security apparatus, Lavrentiy Beria.

  7. 1956 Georgian demonstrations - Wikipedia

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    On 25 February 1956, at a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered a "secret speech" in which he criticized actions taken by the Stalin regime, particularly the purges of the military and the upper Party echelons, and the development of Stalin's cult of personality, while maintaining support for other ideals ...

  8. Memento Park - Wikipedia

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    Memento Park (Hungarian: Szoborpark) is an open-air museum in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to monumental statues and sculpted plaques from Hungary's Communist period (1949–1989).

  9. List of places named after Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia

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    Stalinallee (Stalin Avenue) in Berlin, East Germany, 1952–1961 – now Karl-Marx-Allee (see also: Stalin-Allee, about a film featuring this street) Stalinstraße (Stalin Street) – now Lübsche Straße, Wismar; Stalinstraße – now St.Annen-Straße, Brandenburg an der Havel; Stalinstraße – now Wismarsche Straße, Schwerin