Is there a name for the style of the 'superhero' Russian statues?
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I believe you are talking about Socialist realism or possibly Brutalism(to be fair, Brutalism was made in the UK, but it was still popular in the USSR).
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There was no special name for hero statues style, at least in the Soviet Union. "Socialist realism", according to Soviet official definition, was not a particular style but a general method (as they called it, but a more adequate translation would be "philosophy") in art. It applied to all art, not specially to hero statues. Here are some of the most famous examples:
There is a lot of similarity with Nazi art as seen here, for example.
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