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Five Lenins that had to go

Shaking off communist past 5 times: Ukraine makes habit of demolishing Lenin monuments

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On Mar 18, 2016
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Zaporizhzhya Lenin

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The video is reported to have garnered thousands of viewers when the footage went live. This 20-meter tall bronze behemoth has been an eye-sore for Zaporizhzhya’s citizens for quite some time. Locals used to dress him up in various sarcastic costumes to desecrate the communist idol.

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Darth Vader Lenin

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The force is with Odessa: they turned Lenin’s statue into Darth Vader and held a full-on Star Wars inspired ceremony with “Chewbacca” driving “stormtroopers” around in his go-kart.

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Kharkov Lenin

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While organizers of the event in Zaporizhzhya took pride in how carefully they removed Ukraine’s largest Lenin statue, citizens in Kharkov toppled their “Soviet Leader” during the night in what appears to have been a violent act of rage against a man long gone.

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Dniprodzerzhynsk Lenin

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Nearly 1,000 statues of Lenin have been removed and torn down since 2013. Here’s a video from 2014 showing an angry mob destroying yet another monument. It took place on the day of the Defender of the Fatherland - a holiday linked to the Soviet Red Army.

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Donetsk Lenin

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This video proves that it’s no easy task to get rid of Lenin. His memorial in Donetsk survived a bomb attack late last month, as if it were nothing more than a mosquito bite.

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