Grutas Sculpture Park in Lithuania was a personal intervention by Viliumas Malinauskas, featuring public art which no longer has a public - the art celebrating Soviet heroes of the revolution. The Sculpture Park opened in 1999.

Standing near a towering figure of Lenin, Eliana Dulinsky, a Brazilian of Lithuanian descent, defended the park as 'a necessity'.

'Otherwise, Lithuanians would have done what other countries do, and destroyed symbols of their history,' she said.

'I suppose that now communists come here with nostalgia, while Lithuanians come from all over the country with rage,' she said.

Moscow also has its Park of the Fallen Heros, near the New Tretyakov Gallery. A bit sad and depressing. I was there in September a year ago, and so share a few snaps with you:

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