Trivia / Worker and Kolkhoz Woman

• Creator Backlash: After the 1937 Paris World's Fair, the statue was installed in Moscow in its present location, but without the original pedestal (the World's Fair pavilion), which Vera Mukhina considered integral to the monument. She even described the new pedestal as a "stump". It stood here until it was dismantled in 2003 for restoration work. It was fully restored in 2009, with a new pedestal more resembling the original World's Fair pavilion.
• Dueling Works: On the Champ de Mars in Paris during the 1937 World's Fair, the Soviet Union's pavilion and the sculpture directly faced◊ Nazi Germany's pavilion and its eagle on top◊, symbolizing the clash of Communist and National-Socialist ideologies (which would eventually turn very deadly, materializing into the Eastern Front of World War II).

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