"I took with me back my father - says Carmen Garcia. - I was a little girl and I only remember lots of people gathered with sad eyes. He was among them, and the founder of the Party of Communists of Cuba Julio Antonio Mella. "

Today in Havana, not only the hill, and the whole park is named after the leader of world proletariat. The vast green lawns, gentle hills, clear bamboo forest, the artificial lake of the park - a favorite vacation spot gavantsev. It was decided to put the first in the Americas monument to Lenin.

The creators of the monument - the Soviet and Cuban sculptors, architects, builders, supervisor for the construction of the complex - Antonio Quintana, who was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Arts of Russia. The author of the monument - a prominent Soviet sculptor, National Artist of Russia, laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes of Russia L. Kerbel.

The majestic white marble monument ... like a detailed outline of his banner. In the background stands a three-meter sculptural portrait of Lenin. The monument sculpted from the famous Cuban "pearl" of marble, mined on the Island of Youth. On it are engraved the words and the signature of f. Castro: "Lenin was right from the start, not only political theorists, but also a man of action, a man of constant, never once discontinuing revolutionary practice."

The monument was opened on January 8, 1948, the 25th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution paved the way for socialism in the Americas.

In conclusion, the magazine again heard oral poetry and songs (eg "And the battle is going again," muses. Pahmutowa, cl. N. Dobronravova).

See: "Leader of the world proletariat" / True. In 1984. January 12.;

Stroyev J. "A Tribute to Love" / Komsomolskaya Pravda. In 1984. January 12.

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