Grutas Park is home to only one monument of Stalin, originally set up in Vilnius.

Grutas Park (nicknamed "Stalin World") is a sculpture garden of monumental Soviet-era statues and exposition of other ideological relics near Druskininkai, about 130 km southeast Vilnius, Lithuania. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1726 KB) Stalin monument in Grutas park, Grutas village, Lithuania. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1726 KB) Stalin monument in Grutas park, Grutas village, Lithuania. ... The Esplanade Ernest-Cormier, a sculpture garden in Montreal, with Melvin Charneys work Colonnes allégoriques. ... The Soviet Union donated Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares, a sculpture by Evgeniy Vuchetich to the United Nations in 1959 Soviet-era statues are statuary art as figured prominently in the art of the Soviet Union. ... Druskininkai is a spa town on Neman River in Lithuania, close to the borders to Belarus and Poland. ... Location Ethnographic region Dzūkija County Vilnius County Municipality Vilnius city municipality Elderate Number of elderates 20 Coordinates 54°40′N 25°19′E General information Capital of Lithuania Vilnius County Vilnius city municipality Vilnius district municipality Population (rank) 540,318 in 2005 (1st) First mentioned 1323 Granted city rights...

After Lithuania regained its independence in 1990, all these statues were deconstructed and deposited in different places. Later local entrepreneur Viliumas Malinauskas offered Lithuanian authorities to pass him rights to the sculptures, so he would use his own financing and build a museum. This article is about the year. ...

This Soviet theme park was created in swamps of Dzukija National Park. Lots of details remind of Soviet Gulag prison camps: wooden paths, guard towers and fences. Though it has lots of irony, some people say it raises painful memories, and establishment of this museum has faced some fierce opposition. A freshwater swamp This article is about the wetland type (a landform). ... Cepkeliu swamps in Dzukija National Park Dzukija National Park - a national park in Dzukija in Lithuania established in 1991 in order to preserve the pine forests, the landscape and the villages of the region on the area of 550 square kilometres on the banks of Neman River. ... Gulag (Russian: ГУЛАГ ▶ (help· info)) is an acronym for Главное Управление Исправительно—Трудовых Лагерей и колоний, Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii, The Chief Directorate [or Administration] of Corrective Labour Camps and Colonies. Anne Applebaum, in her book Gulag: A History, explains: Literally, the word GULAG is an acronym, meaning Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp Administration. ...

The park also contains playgrounds, a mini-zoo and cafes, all containing Soviet symbolism.

Exposition

This statue of Lenin was damaged by crowds at the fall of communism.

The exposition has statues divided into groups of different spheres. Each statue is accompanied by information stand, containing information about crimes of subjects, as almost all (except Marx) were participants of anti-Lithuanian activity. In total, the exposition consists of 86 statues, created by 46 authors in the past. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 626 KB) Taken with permission at Grutas Park, known as Stalin World. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 626 KB) Taken with permission at Grutas Park, known as Stalin World. ...

Events

Time to time, the actors "revive" here various famous figures of the Soviet past, exactly replicating the celebration of the former Soviet festivals.

Totalitarian sphere

• Lenin
• Joseph Stalin
• Karl Marx

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ( Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин  listen?), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) ( April 22 (April 10 ( O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the founder of the ideology of Leninism. ... (help· info) (Russian, in full: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин (Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin), born Джугашвили (Dzhugashvili), Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი (Ioseb Jughashvili); (December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1878 – March 5, 1953) was the leader of the Soviet Union from mid-1920s to his death in 1953 and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883 London) was an influential German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary organizer of the International Workingmens Association. ...

Terror sphere

• Felix Dzerzhinsky, the organizer of Red Terror
• M.Kozlovsky, head of Soviet Committee of Inquiry
• Zigmas Aleksa-Angarietis
• Vincas Kapsukas, organizer of Red Terror regime in Lithuania
• P.Eidukevicius
• V.Putna, J.Uborevicius - cruel military suppressors of anti-soviet revolts in Kronstadt and Tambov
• J.Baltusis-Zemaitis - participant of Lithuanian Occupation in 1940

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский; September 11, 1877 - July 20, 1926) was a Polish Communist revolutionary, famous as the founder of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka, later known by many names. ... The Red Terror was a campaign of mass arrests and deportations targeted against counterrevolutionaries in Russia during the Russian Civil War. ... Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas (Budvečiai, 7 April (Old Style 23 March) 1880 - Moscow, 17 December 1935) was a Lithuanian politician, one of the founders and later leader of the Lithuanian Communist Party. ... This article is about the events that took place in Russia, 1921. ... Komunalnaya Ulitsa, Tambov Tambov (Тамбо́в) is a city in Russia, administrative center of Tambov Oblast. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Soviet sphere

K.Pozela, J.Greifenberger, K.Giedrys, R.Carnas, E.Tuckus, B.Grikas, V.Rekasius - fighters against Lithuanian independence in 1918-1919. 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Red sphere

• Maryte Melnikaite - soviet partisan
• Other soviet partisans

(mocking idealization of partisans and their crimes)

Occupation sphere

Various participants of occupation and organizers of mass terror and genocide. Genocide is defined by the JERRFGGHH and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide]] (CPPCG) article 2 as any of the following acts part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting...

Death sphere

Organizers and heads of various death squadrons and anti-nationalistic organizations.

See also

• List of statues of Lenin

In the Soviet Union, every city had several monuments of Vladimir Lenin. ...

External links

• Museum of occupations of Estonia — Project by the Kistler-Ritso Estonian Foundation
• The Occupation museum of Latvia
• Could the Baltic States have resisted to the Soviet Union?
• What Happened in Lithuania in 1940? — Article by Alfred Erich Senn
• Crimes of Soviet Communists — Wide collection of sources and links
• Stalin World
• From Zappa to Lenin
• Photos