Goddess of Democracy

The 2006 bronze statue of the Goddess of Democracy (民主女神) by Thomas Marsh is part of the Victims of Communism monument in Swampoodle, Washington, DC.

Thomas Marsh

2006

Victims of Communism Memorial 

To the more than

One hundred million

Victims of Communism

and to those who love Liberty

Dedicated

2007

Goode describes the statue this way:

The sculpture consists of a 10-foot bronze statue of Democracy, an allegorical Neoclassical female holding aloft the torch of freedom. It is based both on the Statue of Liberty and the statue erected by Chinese students in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, in June 1989, to protest the evils of communism. The statue in Beijing was 40 feet tall and was created by students in the Central Academy of Fine Art. Chinese communist soldiers killed many student protestors at the time and ran over the original statue with tanks. The statue is a memorial to the estimated 100 million people who have been killed under communist rule since the Russian Revolution of 1917. 

A nearby historical marker has this photo of the original Goddess of Democracy in Tiananmen Square in 1989. 

In the photo below the Goddess of Democracy can be seen on the left and the Statue of Freedom, on the Capitol Dome can be seen on the right.