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Le Libérer
1st December 2009, 05:47
A Russian stumbleupon friend posted this to her blog. (http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/tb/a9hml)

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman is a 24.5 meter (78 feet) high sculpture made from stainless steel by Vera Mukhina for the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, and subsequently moved to Moscow. It was one of the main symbols of the Soviet State. In 2003 the sculpture was removed for restoration. And two days ago it was returned back.


A progression of the installation is available on the link.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w_3R-gECff4/SxPFx6Knv4I/AAAAAAAALwY/-SkgTo2oKUc/s1600/14.jpg
Rusty Shackleford
1st December 2009, 08:47
WOW that thing is huge! i like it.
Raúl Duke
1st December 2009, 14:26
Nice...I always wondered what the fate of that big statue became.
MockDoctor
4th December 2009, 20:09
Hehe, one time when me and my mom were in Moscow, on the square where the statue used to be, the statue wasn't there and my mom didn't hear that it was being restored. She asked a saleswoman nearby what happened to the statue. The saleswoman said that the statue was gone for good because the government hated it.
What a stupid woman.

Well, I'm glad to see the statue back again :D
Il Medico
5th December 2009, 04:45
[QUOTE=MockDoctor;1615957]
HEY! Stop cutting in on my name recognition! :tt2:
Panda Tse Tung
8th December 2009, 19:24
I never realized it was THAT massive. Haha, awesome.
bcbm
8th December 2009, 20:20
I never realized it was THAT massive. Haha, awesome.

thats what she said
Honggweilo
9th December 2009, 18:29
thats what she said
need to compensate much :lol:?
Kayser_Soso
9th December 2009, 19:23
I had heard they were restoring it when I saw it by surprise last Saturday. It looked beautiful in the dark, lit up by floodlights.
bcbm
9th December 2009, 21:38
need to compensate much :lol:?

nah (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=that%27s%20what%20she%20said)
gorillafuck
10th December 2009, 00:14
thats what she said
I was gonna make that joke about Vacants comment.
bcbm
10th December 2009, 02:48
ohh that would've been a good one too
Bright Banana Beard
10th December 2009, 02:57
Wow, it is so big.
Pirate Utopian
10th December 2009, 13:40
That thing is so large and rockhard, I just wanna touch it all day long.
Kayser_Soso
10th December 2009, 20:21
Sadly the national pavilions inside VDNKh have been taken over by small shops, and are dominated by billboards and advertisements around them. I am glad to see this monument back because it is a reminder, like VDNKh's front gates, that in the socialist era art was produced for the sake of beauty, rather than to sell a product.