SCARS depicts the exact location where statues of Lenin and Stalin once stood in Europe’s former Eastern Bloc states. These photographs seem to portray obscure public squares or city parks, but to many local inhabitants, these spaces are still charged with an ominous presence. In some cases, the absence of the statue is more obvious, while in others the local government has gone to great lengths to transform the space, revealing the trauma these statues often evoked. Because these statues were removed systematically more than 30 years ago, this project sheds light on the cultural reckoning taking place in the U.S., and elsewhere, with regards to the power of monuments to propagate false histories and codify political ideologies.