These pictures are of a monument and a bust at the front of my place of employment. When I first saw them, I assumed that the monument, bust, and the surrounding structures were built during the pre-reform era of 1949-1979, given their decidedly Soviet aesthetic. I was informed that it was all built in 2004. Initially, I thought the bust was of Karl Marx. I was told by a colleague that it is Dostoevsky. There are other busts in this rather wide plaza of various Russian luminaries, one of Ludwig Van Beethoven, and various Chinese revolutionaries. Mao is conspicuously absent. Architecturally, Stalinism is alive and well.
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