List of statues of Joseph Stalin

Albania

• A statue of Joseph Stalin stood in Tirana but was taken down in December 1990.
• A large statue of Stalin, along with one of Lenin, can be found behind the Art Museum in Tirana.

Armenia

• From November 1950 until spring 1962, a huge Stalin statue was located in Yerevan. It was replaced in 1967 by Mother Armenia.

China

• A statue of Stalin in Stalin Park, Harbin.

Czech Republic

• In Olomouc.
• A massive granite statue of Stalin, the largest depiction of Stalin, stood in Letná Park, Prague from 1955 to 1962.

Germany

• A large statue of Stalin raising his right hand was in Riesa.
• A statue of Stalin stood in East Berlin's Stalinallee, 1951–61.

Georgia

• Small bust in front of the Batumi Stalin Museum.
• A statue of Stalin stood at the town hall in Gori until it was taken down in June 2010.
• A Bust and a statue of Stalin was displayed in the Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori, but it was destroyed.
• A statue of Stalin is still displayed in the Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori.
• A silver statue of Stalin still exists in Shovi.
• A gold statue of Stalin exists in Tsromi.
• A statue exists in the village of Varani, Gori.
• A statue exists near the village Sasashi .

Hungary

• Former Stalin Monument at the edge of Városliget in Budapest torn down in 1956.

Lithuania

• In Grutas Park.

Mongolia

• A statue of Stalin stands at Isimuss Club in Ulaanbaatar.
• A statue of Stalin stood at front of the National Library of Mongolia until 1991. It was replaced by a statue of Byambyn Rinchen.

The Netherlands

• A statue of Stalin waist-deep in a pond, it is part of a bigger artwork called "Spitting leaders" (Fernando Sánchez Castillo, 2008) in Presikhaaf Park, Arnhem. The artwork depicts four statues: Stalin, Francisco Franco, Louis XIV, and Adolf Hitler. they spit water on each other's faces. Not only are they mocked by the artist, but they mock each other.

Poland

• An Ustrzyki Dolne statue 1951–56. As the result of the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange Poland obtained Ustrzyki Dolne, where Stalin's statue existed. The statue was unpopular, dressed, decorated with sausages or a broom and finally removed in 1956.
• Kraków – with Vladimir Lenin, in Strzelecki Park, removed in 1957

Romania

• A statue of Stalin stood at the entrance of Parcul I. V. Stalin (now renamed Parcul Herăstrău) in Bucharest but was torn down sometime between 1959 and 1965, during the De-Stalinization in Romania.
• A statue was located in front of the Central Party Committee Building (today the Prefecture) in Brașov but was torn down sometime between 1959 and 1965 during the De-Stalinization in Romania.
• A statue by Márton Izsák, located in the city center in Târgu Mureș, was torn down in 1962 during the De-Stalinization in Romania{{ cite book

Russia

• Many statues can be found at Fallen Monument Park, Moscow.
• Bust at his tomb in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow.
• Bust in the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow.
• Statue of Stalin along with Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the All-Russia Exhibition Center, Moscow.
• A large Stalin statue stood at the All-Russia Exhibition Center until 1948.
• A statue of Stalin was unveiled in Taganskaya metro station, Moscow in 2025 to replace an earlier monument that stood from 1950–1966.
• A large statue of Stalin (created in 1952 by sculptor E.V. Vuchetich) stood in a southern suburb of Volgograd until 1961. A huge statue of Lenin, created by the same sculptor, was set up in the same spot and on the same base in 1972.
• A bust stands at the Memorial of Glory in Vladikavkaz.
• A bust stands at School No. 2 in Ardon, North Ossetia.
• There is a bust of Stalin in the Communist Party's regional headquarters in Bryansk.
• A bust of Stalin is in Kizel.
• A statue in Nogir, North Ossetia–Alania.
• A bust of Stalin in the village of Chokh, Dagestan (42.319722, 47.031167).
• A bust of Stalin at a square in Derbent, Dagestan (42.054718, 48.310115).
• A bust of Stalin in the town of Dagestanskiye Ogni, Dagestan (until 2021).
• Bust of Stalin near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum alongside those of Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky.

Tajikistan

• A Stalin statue stands at a nursery school in Asht.

Ukraine

• A bust of Stalin was formerly exhibited in front of the Communist Party of Ukraine's headquarters in Zaporizhzhia in 2010. Destroyed in January 2011 by explosion.
• Last known statue of Stalin is on the road into Chernobyl.

United States

• A bust of Stalin was erected at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia in 2010, but after controversy was soon removed for a planned relocation on the site. It had not reappeared as of January 2025.

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