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Soviet leader statues show old face of Communism

(25 Oct 2017) LEADIN: A Ukranian businessman is capturing the Communist era by restoring statues of Soviet leaders for a new open-air museum. Images of Lenin and Stalin can be seen at The Museum of Social Realism at a time when Kiev is trying to rid the country of Soviet-era symbols. STORYLINE: The stoney head of Vladimir Lenin stands in a park in the village of Frumushika-Nova near the Ukraine-Moldovan border. Nearby a full sized statue of the former communist revolutionary lies staring up at the sky. The park has been transformed into an open air museum called The Museum of Social Realism. It's the brainchild of Ukrainian businessman Olexandr Palariyev, who decided to collect Soviet era statues and put them all in one place. His hobby started in 2006 and the open air museum currently has 128 monuments. After the fall of the Soviet Union statues of its leaders were toppled or thrown into disused places. "There were many such monuments, hidden in bushes or abandoned parks or in haylofts, in motor depots or under the fences. The process was very dynamic and we have collected around thirty or forty exhibits within two months," explains Palariyev. In 2015 Ukraine outlawed Communist symbols in an attempt to break with its Soviet past amid fighting Pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country. All Soviet symbols including monuments, songs or plaques have been banned. However the law still allows such exhibits to be put on display in museums. The majority of Palariyev's exhibits are of the Soviet leaders Lenin and Stalin, but Soviet era poets or statesman are also on show. Most were in terrible condition and had to be renovated. Palariyev looks at his museum as a way to attract tourists. However he has no nostalgia towards the Soviet regime since it ordered the deportation of his family in 1946. "Twelve members of my family, the Palariyev family, were deported to Siberia. But they only reached Kazakhstan. And eight years later only one girl came back. So, what do you think will be my attitude toward Soviet regime? I look at this museum only as a part of the tourism industry. That's all," he says. Most visitors agree that the park doesn't glorify the Soviet era, but helps them analyse and accept its history. "It does not matter if the regime was good or bad, it is our memory," says one visitor, Andriy Slobodyaniuk. "Even in the negative sense they (young people) have to know them, because it is our history," adds local resident Elena Machulko. "Who was in charge of our country, how did they manage it and why they were overthrown." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...