Image depicting the comparative sizes of the Lenin status intended for atop the Palace of Soviets and the Statue of Liberty

Image depicting the comparative sizes of the Lenin status intended for atop the Palace of Soviets and the Statue of Liberty

The statue of Vladimir Lenin intended to be placed atop the Palace of Soviets would have been just over 508 ft tall (155 m) – more than three times the height of the American Statue of Liberty (150 ft / 46 m) and just over 6.5 times the height of Vera Mukhina’s iconic 1937 statue “Worker and Collective Farmer” (76 ft / 24.3 m)