This stoic bronze soldier stands as a symbol of Russian sacrifice or Soviet oppression, or maybe both.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

This striking structure is the Socialist-modernist centerpiece of a former Soviet spa resort.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

The inverted pyramid design of this station stands out amid Bratislava's urban landscape.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.

A relic of the Cold War tucked away in the forested hills above Bratislava.

A symbolic graveyard for the villages that perished during the Nazi invasion of Belarus.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

A statue of the Soviet leader still stands in a quiet corner of Estonia’s most Russian city.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.