Nikita Khrushchev in a scene at the United Nations Conference on October 12, 1960

The Lehrpfad der unholdigen Personen ("Trail of Villainous Characters") is a approximately 1.3 km long sculpture trail in the forest of the Klein Strömkendorf Manor in the municipality of Am Salzhaff on the Baltic Sea, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.[1]

The trail features six life-size statues of "villains", including George W. Bush, Nikita Khrushchev, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Erich Honecker, Vladimir Lenin, and Donald Trump.[2] The idea for the trail came from Marita Gronau, the owner of the manor, and her late partner, Thomas Petsch, who passed away in 2017.[3] The statues are located partly on the manor's property and partly in the state forest. Gronau refused to have statues of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, and a Polish foundry declined to produce a statue of Vladimir Putin due to concerns over Putin's actions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine|.[3][4]

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