Soviet Statue…

I was drawn to this statue in Mongolia while a fellow this summer for the American Center of Mongolian Studies. We were driving by it and I just had to hop out and get a closer look.

My Mongolian colleagues kindly gave me a short history lesson on the statue–in fact, we passed by a number of statues from around the same period on our long journey (thousands of kilometers all over the countryside). But this is the one that really captured my attention and lens–and the dilapidated buildings surrounding it only added to its appeal as an artifact of history…