25 abandoned soviet monuments  

The original source, fully...
The original source, fully presented as a flash book:
http://issuu.com/romapublications/docs/spomenik_preview
Context and Background:
http://www.ascmag.com/blog/2011/02/28/spomenik%e2%80%94jan-kempenaers-an...
Understanding what these are, what they represent, when they were made, the land they are in, and what happened here before and after they were built, I'm not sure what I feel but I don't think its 'love'.
http://issuu.com/romapublications/docs/spomenik_preview

What about the Parthenon or...
What about the Parthenon or any other ruin you could name?
Sorry Woody, that was bad.

No comments yet other than,...
No comments yet other than, WoW with slightly bulging eyes!

VERY powerful images. Bold.....
VERY powerful images. Bold...and such intense, and some cases cataclysmic, energy yet a graceful beauty despite. It may not be love, but does anyone else feel they directly imply peace, strength and unity regardless of the commentary in Expos links saying they are devoid of any symbolic meaning.. These themes are a language that all political interest can relate with.

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I wonder if they were an innocent expression of confidence and self belief or built rhetoric trying to encourage it?

Russian
Constructivism, and Futurism, have a place in the background here, I guess. These monuments may be the spiritual (?) offspring of Tatlin's famous tower ?
http://tinyurl.com/3ev8a4k