 While they did not expressly call for the demolition of the Freedom Monument, the only way to restore the statue to its original position would have been to tear down the monument.The result of the debate is unrecorded, but since the monument still stands the proposition was presumably rejected.The Soviet sculptor Vera Mukhina (1889–1953; designer of the monumental sculpture "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman") is sometimes credited with the rescue of the monument, although there is no written evidence to support the fact.