Main image: JOSEF STALIN stands in military dress, his hand tucked inside the breast of his coat. Vladimir Lenin sits—relaxed, cross-legged—with a book. Elsewhere, he extends his arm, mimicking the pose he adopted when he arrived in Russia in 1917 to seize power. Grutas Park, a sculpture garden in south-west Lithuania, is the home of 86 such relics of the Soviet era. Established by Viliumas Malinauskas, a mushroom magnate, the park has been their woodland home since 2001.In 1990, when Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union, citizens pulled down statues of leaders and prominent communist figures. In the heated political moment there was little thought for what to do with them subsequently (as seems to be the case in many of the American cities that have removed their Confederate monuments). After a debate in Lithuania’s parliament, the statues were removed and placed into storage. In Grutas Park, they have been sited thoughtfully across 20 hectares of forest. The figures are grouped according to their role in Soviet activity: the Totalitarian Sphere depicts key thinkers and prominent leaders; the Red Sphere features members of the resistance; the Death sphere shows the bloody means by which the regimes were kept in place. Indeed, the park allows the spectre of suffering to ...