Abandoned monuments of the Soviet Union

• Abandoned Soviet monuments of the

When Francis Fukuyama so joyfully declared that the world had reached the "end of history" in 1992, he was only half right. Yes, the Soviet Union and its ideological model was ordered to live long, and the Western model of liberal democracy has gained momentum.

However, the ideas come and go, but the buildings and structures in which these ideas were born, lived and died, remain much longer. It is related to the monuments scattered throughout the former Soviet Union and sotsbloka countries. Although these abandoned sites were probably influenced by the time, they still remind us of the transformative and lasting power that have ideas.

Statue of a Communist in the Bulgarian town of Zimnitsa.

Nis, Serbia.

Koshman, Serbia.

Krusevo, Macedonia.

Jasenovac, Croatia.

Kossuth, Croatia.

Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ostra, Romania.

Tentishte, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Petrova Gora, Croatia.

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Brezovica, Kosovo.

Kolasin, Montenegro.

Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Tentishte, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Macklem, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Mitrovica, Kosovo.

Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia.

Korenica, Croatia.

Niksic, Montenegro.

Kozara, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Xin, Croatia.

Kadinyacha, Serbia.

Grmech, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Monument to the Revolution in Moslavina, Croatia.

On the outskirts of Buzludzha, Bulgaria.

Monument Shumen, Bulgaria.

Russian soldiers, addressed to Moscow, Varna, Bulgaria.

Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria in the city of Shumen.

monument of Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship in Varna, Bulgaria.

Hill Fellowship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Hall of the Communist Party in Buzludja Bulgaria.