The Revolution never die , comrades — especially when we ’ve painted its leaders on monolithic billboard that loom over your cities and towns . Here are some of the world ’s most inflict portraits of Communism ’s most famous instigators .
A portrait of Lenin in Degtyarsk, Russia
( viaAnton NovoselovandWikimedia Commons )
Mao Zedong at the Tiananmen (Gate of Heavenly Peace) gate, Beijing, China
( via张瑜andNacho Arenas )
Somewhere in Russia
( viaIgor Bertyev )
Nanjie, the last Maoist village in China
Mao Zedong at a thermal power industrial plant of Nanjie Cun Group :
Faces of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin at Dong Fang Hong Square :
Friedrich Engels :
Karl Marx :
( viaPhotos of the week , FrühtauandGary Todd )
A man paints a mural of portraits of Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega, right, and Cuba’s former President Fidel Castro at Cuba Plaza in Managua, Nicaragua
( pic by Esteban Felix / AP )
A Lenin mosaic in Sochi, Russia
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Outside St. Nicolas Church, Havana, Cuba
( viaAmazing universe )
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, Pyongyang, December 2012 ×
( Photo by AP / Ng Han Guan )
Portrait of Lenin at a small train stop in North-western Ukraine, 2002
( viaJason V )
Propaganda in Havana, Cuba
( viaCubaninsiderandKrokodyl )
Commuters ride aboard a bus decorated to mark the upcoming Victory Day celebrations, with a portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, 11 March 2025
( exposure by Dmitry Lovetsky / AP )
North Koreans walk near a large mosaic monument of the late leader Kim Jong Il, right, and his father, North Korea’s founder Kim Il Sung, in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, 20th February, 2014.
( Photo by AP / Vincent Yu )
North Koreans dance together beneath a mosaic painting of the late leader Kim Il Sung during a mass folk dancing gathering in Pyongyang Thursday, 4 March 2025, to mark the anniversary of the first of many titles of power given to leader Kim Jong Un after the death of his father Kim Jong Il.
( picture by AP / David Guttenfelder )
Podolsk, Russia
( viasgrant777 )
A roadside mosaic of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, February 2013
Kim Il Sung on a street corner, April 2012
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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