Statue Of Friedrich Engels, Manchester
The statue of Friedrich Engels is a 12 ft (3.7 m) concrete statue of German philosopher Friedrich Engels currently located at Tony Wilson Place in Manchester, England. The Soviet-era statues, Soviet-era statue depicts Engels in a standing pose with his arms crossed, and stands on a pedestal bearing the Cyrillic inscription "Ф. ЕНГЕЛЬС" ("F. ENGELS"). History First constructed in the 1970s, the statue was originally installed in the village of Mala Pereschepyna in the Poltava Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR. In 2015 Ukraine passed Ukrainian decommunization laws, a series of laws that outlawed the public display of Soviet symbols, and the statue was consequently removed from its original position and discarded in a field, having been cut in half at the waist. The removal of so many Soviet-era monuments in Ukraine prompted the artist Phil Collins (artist), Phil Collins to begin searching for a statue of Engels to bring to Manchester, the city in which Engels had been living when ...
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