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The Berlin Stalin statue ((ドイツ語:Stalindenkmal)) was a larger-than-life bronze portrayal of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. A Komsomol delegation had presented the sculpture to the East Berlin government on the occasion of the Third World Festival of Youth and Students in 1951. The monument was formally dedicated on 3 August 1951 after being temporarily placed at a location on a newly designed and impressive boulevard, Stalinallee, being constructed at the time in what was then the Berlin district of Friedrichshain. Stalin monuments were generally removed from public view by the leadership of the Soviet Union and other associated countries in the years following the disavowal of the Stalinist dictatorship. In Berlin the statue and all street signs designating Stalinallee were hastily removed one night in a “cloak-and-dagger operation”, and the street was renamed. The bronze sculpture was smashed and the pieces were recycled. ==Location and description == Stalinallee, formerly the Große Frankfurter Straße, had been badly damaged in World War II and was renamed on Stalin’s birthday, 21 December 1949, in honor of the Soviet head of state. The newly designed street was a political statement in a post-war reconstruction effort starting in 1951 and comprising an imposing tree-lined boulevard with shops, entertainment venues, gastronomy, and especially monumental new apartment blocks. These were to be constructed by and for workers and contain luxuries unknown in the previous cramped working-class flats in buildings destroyed in the war. The 4.80 meter high bronze statue showed the Soviet head of party and state in a typical military pose with a uniform and medals, in his left hand a scroll. The slightly conical three-meter high pedestal, variously described as being made of marble, concrete or sandstone, was placed on a masonry platform. The temporary location between Andreasstrasse and Koppenstrasse was across the street from a sports hall built in 1951 for the World Festival of Youth and Students (the building was demolished in 1972). Which Soviet artist created the statue is a matter of debate among experts. According to one source it was presumably created in the atelier of the Soviet sculptor Grigory Postnikov (Григорий Николаевич Постников, 1914–1978).〔From a website operated by the Georg-Kolbe-Museum on sculpture in Berlin (''Bildhauerei in Berlin''), retrieved 9 June 2015 ()〕 Other sources name Nikolai Tomsky and Sergey Merkurov, the latter because of similarities with a statue erected in 1937 in Moscow.〔(Image of the Merkurov statue, retrieved 8 June 1915 )〕 A Russian source states that Tomsky created the monument.〔Information from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, retrieved 8 June 2015 ()〕 File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-11500-0375, Berlin, Stalindenkmal, Enthüllung.jpg|Unofficial photograph taken after the 1951 dedication of the Stalin monument File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-19119-0004, Berlin, Karl-Marx-Allee, Stalin-Denkmal.jpg|Stalin monument in April 1953 in the context of newly erected buildings on Stalinallee Contrary to the original intention to move the statue to Strausberger Platz on Stalinallee as soon as that key location was ready for adornment in the late 1950s, it was left at its original location. File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-20145-0015, Berlin, Bau Karl-Marx-Allee, Strausberger Platz.jpg|Strausberger Platz under construction in 1953 File:Karl Marx Allee, Berlin, Germany (6007920500).jpg|Strausberger Platz in 2011 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stalin Statue (Berlin)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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