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Statue of Friedrich Engels, Manchester

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between 1842 and 1844. After two years of searching for a suitable statue of Engels, Collins discovered the statue in its abandoned state and after eight months of negotiations was able to secure permission to transport the statue to England.
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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.
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The statue was temporarily displayed at several locations across Europe on the journey to England. It was unveiled in its new location in front of
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to begin searching for a statue of Engels to bring to Manchester, the city in which Engels had been living when he wrote
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First constructed in the 1970s, the statue was originally installed in the village of Mala Pereschepyna in the
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depicts Engels in a standing pose with his arms crossed, and stands on a pedestal bearing the
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The removal of so many Soviet-era monuments in Ukraine prompted the artist
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The statue in its current location on Tony Wilson Place, Manchester
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The statue in its original location in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine
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is a 12 ft (3.7 m) concrete statue of German philosopher
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53°28′24″N 2°14′49″W / 53.47338°N 2.24702°W / 53.47338; -2.24702
Manchester
United Kingdom
Statue
Concrete
m
ft
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
Manchester
England
Soviet-era statue
Cyrillic
Poltava Oblast
Ukrainian SSR
Ukraine
a series of laws
Phil Collins
The Condition of the Working Class in England
HOME
Manchester International Festival
The statue in its original location in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine
The statue in its current location on Tony Wilson Place, Manchester
Monument to Friedrich Engels (Moscow)
List of statues of Karl Marx
"Engels mustn't fall"
The Spectator
"Tearing down the statue of Friedrich Engels won't help Ukraine"
The New Statesman

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