(Crappy Totalitarian Art) The Weirdest Monuments Of The Communist Era That Are Still Standing

IO9 ^ | Nov 14, 2012 | Vincze Miklos

[DogByte6RER]

As a worthy honorable mention, I would include this piece of cr@p commie designed statue that was recently added to the Washington, D.C. Mall

[DogByte6RER]

I was not able to link all of the photos via HTML onto this post. if you want to see all of the photos, link over to the IO9 story at:

http://io9.com/5960467/the-strangest-monuments-of-the-communist-era-that-are-still-standing

[spintreebob]

correct me if I’m wrong. But isn’t Obama the most obvious work of art still standing?

[GeronL]

They should add a note:

Everything in North Korea

[martin_fierro]

Ugly Croatian building

Russian Embassy, Cuba.

The Colossus of Königsberg.

Boston City Hall. Not Communist, but almost.

[martin_fierro]

Quetzalcoatl/Great Big Turd sculpture, San Jose, CA

[mylife]

Seriously creepy stuff!

[Oldexpat]

They left out Hot Plate Harry in Jakarta from the Sukarno era.

[mylife]

The Movie “Brazil” comes to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xNnRBksvOU

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Thanks! I love to hate modern art and architecture. Brutalism is especially horrifying.

[PghBaldy]

Thanks for great thread.

[Psalm 144]

I swear but ‘Robo-Lenin from Magnitorsk, 1931’ is an escaped Lego minifig!

[The Antiyuppie]

Actually, it reminds me of the 1984 version of 1984.

I really liked this version, but I haven’t seen it in years, because it reminds me of where I work...

[mylife]

Gilliam’s 1984 is a cult classic and it freaks me out because I see it happening everyday.

[Psalm 144]

“Thanks for great thread.”

Indeed! What PghBaldy said!

[Fiji Hill]

Federal Court, Los Angeles (1940)--an example of Fascist Moderne. The upper floors of the building at the lower right were once a jail.

[BerryDingle]

John Lennon Park, Havana, Cuba.

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[DesertRhino]

Most are bizzare, downright ugly, and commemorate bad things. But that Kiev War memorial is a normal large statue with a sword, and commmorates 2 battles where at least 800,000 died in the Nazi war.
Not really that weird.

[DesertRhino]

The third one looks like those things the Dutch throw in the water to protect causeways and dikes from the waves.