In Teatralnaya Square, directly across the street from the Bolshoi Theatre stands Moscow’s last remaining monument to Karl Marx, which was erected in 1961. The inscription reads “Proletariat of all countries, solidarity!” (aka “Workers of the world, unite!”) While the Communist Party still occasionally rallies around the monument, some have suggested replacing the monument with, among other things, a bronze statue of Vladimir Putin.
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From Roger:
Depressing.
But there should indeed be heroic bronze statues of Putin (and Yeltsin) – after all this the way good Russian serfs honour their tyrants.
And at their best (the famously grotesque equestrian statue of Alexander III we’ve discussed here before frex) these can themselves be ironic acts of Aesopian resistance.