When in early summer of 2012 a larger-than-life monument of Joseph Stalin appeared in the Slovak capital, it did not create much stir among the inhabitants. The first and only attack on the monument occurred a full month after its unveiling: an unknown culprit used red paint to give the statue its final appearance. The indifferent nature of the Bratislava citizens’ reaction has its source in their being accustomed to the fact that in this city statues live their own life. They appear and vanish or wander from place to place in search of a provisional site.