The disclaimer that goes with this is that there might not be exactly, you know, a whole seven. I could be scratching around for more than a couple. But this here - one of several Soviet war monuments around Novgorod, is a definite candidate.

It’s similar in concept to the cosmonaut monument at VDNK in Moscow: a shooting red star on a concrete vapour trail. It was funded by Brezhnev - who thought statues of any kind were cool - and also by public subscription. Novgorod was comprehensively trashed by Nazis in WW2, which is how the town centre came to be rebuilt by German POWs as a penance. In some streets you’d think you were in Berlin.

This area, however, couldn’t be more Soviet and local residents can sleep easy at night under the protective red stardust.