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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.

Soviet-era statues most frequently depicted significant state and party leaders, such as Stalin and V.I. Lenin. Communist symbology was of great importance. Such symbolism including portrayals of figures in motion, figuratively striding forward into the new Soviet age.

The sole statue of Stalin in Budapest, Hungary, was destroyed by citizens during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution; no replacement was ever made.

There is a Lithuanian Soviet Statue park in Lithuania, and a Statue Park (Szoborpark) in Budapest, Hungary.

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