There is one in St Petersburg, in the middle of an unsightly housing estate.
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But is it not a wonderful thing that statues and sculptures are placed amongst housing estates in this manner? Why should statues of a nation’s cultural figureheads be exclusive to the well heeled central/commercial areas of a city?
Dimitri was a man of the people and people live in all manner of housing so stop being elitist
Well said SVM – perhaps the new statue should be sited outside the stadium of DS’s favourite football club – he was, after all, a qualified referee…..