In 1941, the Soviet government awarded Mukhina’s work ... of the All-Russia Exhibition Center on November 28, 2009. The statue now stands on a new 34.5-meter-tall pedestal just as in Mukhina ...

TASS/. Work to remove the Soviet Union’s emblem from Europe’s tallest statue, the Motherland Monument, have begun in Kiev, Ukraine’s TSN news agency reported. The agency published on its ...

Members of the AVO (secret police) are killed, Soviet statues torn down and communists attacked. 24 Oct 1956 Soviet troops and tanks enter Budapest. Twelve Hungarians are killed and many more injured.

This cultural counteroffensive has seen hundreds of Soviet-era streets renamed, scores of statues dismantled and Russian literature removed from bookshelves. It is clearly visible in Kharkiv ...

Ukraine started to remove the Soviet emblem from the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, one of Europe’s tallest statues. Ukraine’s coat of arms will replace the hammer and sickle ahead of Ukraine's ...