Roman Volchenkov [ BIZARRE ] builds a Lenin monument from Armour35 in 1/35 scale.

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This monument has great potential and almost essential in an Eastern Front diorama. Good looking model.

I agree. But not only limited to eastern front judging by the availability of them...

this statue is dedicated to vladimir-illich-lennin. founder of soviet communist state.

Yes I think we all know that the actual statue was dedicated to Lenin. But I doubt the model of the statue is dedicated to Lenin. It's simply a caricature of the statue. You seem to be commenting a lot of very general facts and ideas on many threads...

Hi Frederick,

Very nice idea for a dio. Lenin walking and pointing is exactly the statue located in Sevastopol. Thanks for posting.

Cheers

I think this might be a language issue. He might use a translator for comments.

Every time I see this statue I am reminded of the sordid picture taken by the Germans showing this statue with a Russian partisan hung from a rope attached to Lenins' outstretched hand.
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I think I've seen someones twisted imagination showing this idea reversed - with a German soldier hanging....totally unacceptable to think that a Soviet person would make such action on a leader of the state.

Luckily there are many more options to use such statue be it a WW2 setting (posing with statue, braking it into pieces) to modern days.

Any idea where the original statue serving as inspiration for this model is (was) located?

Edit. The one in Leningrad is pretty similar but not the same.

The simple, but main mistake is here !

Don't forget - V. I. Lenin was real Bolshevik's idol; there were only few World-scale leaders on the Earth through all times, whose image had been replicated so widely.
Each city, each town, each village - EVERY, even smallest, settlement should have the statue (statues) of Lenin - and ALL those places had those statues. Large cities/towns had dozens and dozens of such statues (for example, according to historical data, only Leningrad with all its suburbs had over 150 Lenin monuments before the Nineties). Smaller and smallest places had 1-2-...-5 [or similar numbers] statues.
In 1991 the total quantity of Lenin monuments was:
- in Russia - 7000,
- in Ukraine - 5500,
- in Belarus - 600,
- in Baltic states - 160,
- in foreign countries - 150, etc, etc, etc.
And this is very - very approximate quantity (for quite large monuments only).

Moreover - each plant, factory, school, administrative and office biulding, railway station, even the hospitals and kindergartens, etc, etc could have the Lenin statues (and most part of those objects had such statues).

Moreover - even many private persons had the miniature Lenin statues at their homes. For example, my grandfather has small Lenin statue - about 30 cm/1 foot/ tall - on his table in living room.
And I'm not talking about Lenin's portraits - there were dozens-and-dozens of millions of them in Russia and the Socialist countries.

The most part of those statues were made in similar style - they show standing Lenin; or Lenin, going forward.

Thus, this is absolutely impossible to say, where was (or is) placed this particular statue of Lenin.

You will be absolutely correct, if You will place this model of statue in ANY Russian/Ukrainean/Belorussian, etc, "Soviet places and areas".

Most statues of Lenin were torn down or demolished with the fall of the Soviet Union. Very little of the old regime was to be left standing after the start of the Yeltsin era and the short lived Russian Federation... I am surprised there are not statues of Putin being put up in their place!

I think you have VERY little knowledge of ex-USSR countries

Most statues in Baltics were removed, but not destroyed. Those usually were moved to museums or private collections.
In Russia and other countries they are considered as part of history and they are kept as they are.


As I said in the review quite a number of those were destroyed in Ukraine during the last two years. Which is awkward if one knows the role of Lenin in the territory of UkrSSR and modern day Ukraine. But this is probably too much info?

That is more than I expected. In Hungary they have a theme park with all the removed statues. That might also work for a diorama.

Poor Stalin has had a much worse fate (he seems to be getting more popular lately). Armor35 also has a model for him.
Did You know, that my city, Prague, used to have the largest Stalin statue in the world? It ended in a large explosion...

I know. And I think most of Stalin statues were removed during Khrushev era.

Sorry, but Roman but I have very direct knowledge of the circumstances in which the statues were removed. They were emigres from the states of Georgia, Ukraine, and any number of locations. These were neighbors of mine in Dallas who expressed deep concerns that the history with they had lived for so long was being virtually erased. One of them even said "imagine one day that Thomas Jefferson became out of favor and all references to him... pictures, stories, books... suddenly were gone. You lose your frame of reference". This came from a former KGB Colonel who moved into our building.

I also have a degree in History with a specialty in Russian studies. It is not uncommon for history to be "erased"... look at the Chinese every time there is a purge.

But I digress... this statue would look great regardless of the circumstances in a diorama. I guess I just get a little peeved when people start telling me what I do and don't know...

BTW, my brother-in-law is with the diplomatic corps and was in Estonia for three years. I do know a little more than meets the eye...

yes and no. when you said "Most were removed" - this is incorrect.
Some. and in some countries.

I'm out... plastic to butcher and time is awasting... this statue will look cool regardless of historical accuracy!

Dremels up... and go...