Riddle 05

Yuri Pautov

Dear friends!
This is one of the buildings in the center of my Voronezh city.
(For those who dont know - I live in Russia).

There are two bas-reliefs on the building.
Now I will show one of the bas-reliefs closer




and even more closer




As you can see, something strange happened to this bas-relief - one of the persons disappeared somehow... (BTW without Photoshop :-) The girl is hanging in the air...

Now two questions:

1) Who is this deleted person?

2) why he was deleted?


Waiting for your answers,
Spasibo,
Yuri

Richard

I'll take a wild guess and say Stalin. Considering the number of people he "disappeared" it would only be poetic justice.

angevin1

Richard wrote:

I'll take a wild guess and say Stalin. Considering the number of people he "disappeared" it would only be poetic justice.

Good guess! Of course it could be the other way round..He may have disliked someone else takng his schtick. Obviously whoever it was was at least presented as a true representation to the people; as evidenced by the children holding toys representing all forms to physical transport: depicting how strong the region was in transportation, and the one child with an agirculture offering~

What's the History on the Building??

previette: tom

System

Stalin is a pretty good guess. It's potentially supported by the relief figures themselves. One of the boys is holding a model airplane and another what looks like a submarine but could be a ship of some sort. That would imply that it is during or post WW2.

All the children appear to be in uniforms, I can't tell if they're school uniforms or some sort of youth group like scouting.

There appears to be bullet holes in the relief as well. If they are bullet holes then I would think that the person became wildly unpopular in that city. Since in the former soviet union only soldiers and police owned firearms, that would seem to imply that someone from the military fired at the relief.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was unpopular with the milataristic hardliners of the Soviet Union and was deposed in a coup by the military.

My guess is Gorbachev: and he was removed by the communists that were elected back into office.

Of course, I could be full of beans too....

Nikolai

Richard wrote:

I'll take a wild guess and say Stalin. Considering the number of people he "disappeared" it would only be poetic justice.

+1

Yuri Pautov

Yes,
1. Stalin
2. Cause of cult of personality's denunciation

tomthephotographer

I wish they would have replaced him instead of The white out job they did,

Well more history destroyed.