Czechoslovakia · event 9 of 12

1 May 1955

The Stalin monument is unveiled. The largest statue of Stalin ever built, 15.5 metres, goes up on Letná two years after his death and a year before Khrushchev denounces him. Praguers nickname it the meat queue. It is blown up in 1962.

The Czechoslovakia era

  1. 28 October 1918
  2. 30 September 1938
  3. 15 March 1939
  4. 1941
  5. 27 May 1942
  6. 5 May 1945
  7. 25 February 1948
  8. 1952
  9. 1 May 1955
  10. 21 August 1968
  11. 16 January 1969
  12. 1 January 1977

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