# How Do I Buy Statues of Lenin/Marx/Stalin For Cheap? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 24, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610 "2010-03-24T12:39:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/1 "2010-03-24T12:39:36Z")
Since the collapse of the old USSR, a lot of cities and towns in Russia/Eastern Europe, have been ditching the statues of the patron saints of communism (Marx, Lenin, Stalin)-where did they all go? Is there anywhere you can buy these things? A Russian friend told me that every school in Russia used to have a statue or bust of Lenin-there ought to be tons of this stuff around. Is there any site that sells this stuff for cheap? I’d like a nice statue of Stalin for my garden. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/2 "2010-03-24T13:32:59Z")
I believe quite a lot of them were broken up for scrap, before this drove the price of the remaining examples up in value. Not sure where you could get one though… ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/3 "2010-03-24T13:36:48Z")
There used to be a place called Sovietski Collection but apparently it’s gone out of business. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/4 "2010-03-24T13:42:35Z")
I think you missed the “going out of business” sale by about twenty years. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/5 "2010-03-24T15:24:25Z")
You could put a matching Hitler out there as well… ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/6 "2010-03-24T15:56:06Z")
Add Idi Amin and Pol Pot, and you could have a complete set. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/7 "2010-03-24T16:40:04Z")
Marx would be quite out of place in such a set, never having been a dictator. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/8 "2010-03-24T16:50:04Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > There used to be a place called Sovietski Collection but apparently it’s gone out of business. I was going to say that, too, but realized I hadn’t gotten a catalog from them in a loooong time. The opening credits from the Bond movie _GoldenEye_ had some good images of Communist-era statues and icons being torn down: [GoldenEye - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye#Effects) ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/9 "2010-03-24T17:00:16Z")
If you go any any Russian / ex Soviet street market, there will be plenty of small busts for sale. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/10 "2010-03-24T17:28:04Z")
There’s a Stalinworld theme park, they’ll have a few. A lot of Queen Victorias are littering zoos, back streets and other out of the way places in India, not scrapped but moved to give way for more Indian statues. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/11 "2010-03-24T18:01:34Z")
In Seattle there’s a 15 foot tall bronze statue of Lenin that was bought just after the end of the Soviet Union. But I imagine that all the surplus statues of this type have been scrapped or sold. Don’t forget that a large bronze statue has considerable value just as scrap. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/12 "2010-03-24T18:07:45Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > There’s a Stalinworld theme park… Does it have an entrance but no exit? ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-buy-statues-of-lenin-marx-stalin-for-cheap/533610/13 "2010-03-24T18:10:03Z")
Don’t know about statues, but there are quite a few of Lenin, Stalin and Marx busts on sale on Ebay.