Monuments to Vladimir Lenin around the world
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died in January 1924, but even today there are numerous monuments in his honor in different countries of the world. Monuments to Lenin have been the personification of communist ideas for many years, but due to the changes taking place in the world, they began to be dismantled in many countries. This issue contains photos of Lenin monuments in countries around the world: Latvia, Ukraine, Mongolia, Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, Georgia.
1. A bust of Lenin in a billiard club in Mongolia, where the Lenin Museum used to be located, 2007.
2. A teenager works at a laptop near a bust of Lenin in Druskininkai Park in Lithuania, August 9, 2001.
3. Lenin statue, transported from Czechoslovakia to Seattle, USA.
4. Students destroy communist relics in Ghana, February 28, 1966.
5. The militia of Novorossiya guards a checkpoint near the bust of Lenin in the village of Semenovka in the Donbass, May 22, 2014.
6. A Cuban soldier stands guard near the Lenin Monument in Havana, April 22, 1999.
7. People walk on Freedom Square near the Lenin Monument in Kharkiv, Ukraine, February 4, 2008.
8. The statue of Lenin is gradually destroyed by time in the city of Sviyazhsk, Russia, July 4, 1994.
9. A worker of one of the largest factories of the Soviet period goes through busts of Lenin, Moscow, November 24, 1993.
10. Workers carry out an examination of the monument to Lenin, partially destroyed by vandals, St. Petersburg, April 1, 2009.
11. An amateur scuba diver came across a bust of Lenin at a depth of 14 meters in the Black Sea in the north of Crimea, on August 19, 1996.
12. A child walks on a fallen Lenin statue in Bucharest, Romania, December 11, 2009.
13. The monument to Lenin was covered with ice during a severe frost in Yakutsk, Russia, December 28, 2009.
14. Two Russian soldiers examine the monument to Lenin, destroyed by the Nazis, on August 9, 1941. An Afghan soldier pointed a machine gun at a bust of Lenin, May 13, 1992.
15. Protesters demolished the monument to Lenin in Kyiv, December 8, 2013.
16. Members of the Communist Party applaud the physics Prize winner during the party congress in Moscow, November 29, 2008.
17. A Lithuanian girl sits on the monument to Lenin in Vilnius, September 1, 1991.
18. A gardener works on a flower bed next to the Lenin Monument in the center of Hanoi, Vietnam, April 22, 2010.
19. People gathered near the dismantled Lenin monument in Bucharest, Romania, on March 5, 1990.
20. Georgian soldiers walk past the wreckage of a bust of Lenin during a NATO exercise, May 31, 2009.
21. An activist removes a monument to Lenin in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on September 28, 2014.
22. Activists demolish a monument to Lenin in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on September 28, 2014.
23. The statue of Lenin finally falls on the central square of Kharkov.
24. Activists dismantle the monument during a rally in Kharkiv on September 28.
25. An activist shows a piece from the monument to Lenin, which he took as a souvenir. Later, various parts of the collapsed monument were exhibited at online auctions in Kharkiv.
26. A man walks past the Lenin monument in the village of Barentsburg, Svalbard Archipelago, Russia, April 26, 2007.
27. A Chechen policeman sits next to the wreckage of a bust of Lenin near the Sonya River in Grozny, October 25, 1991.
28. A representative of the Finnish Embassy checks the radiation level near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, on April 24, 1999.
29. A huge statue of Lenin is transported to another place in Khujand, Tajikistan, on May 30, 2011.
30. Ethiopian youths sing next to the dismantled Lenin monument in Addis Ababa, May 23, 1991.
31. A Cuban worker at an oil plant passes by a bust of Lenin, July 4, 2000.
32. Workers try to assemble parts of the statue of Lenin, which were found in a mass Jewish grave in Jedwabno, Poland, on May 31, 2001.
33. A crane operator loads a bust of Lenin, which arrived from Latvia for auction in Sotheby's, October 29, 1997.
34. A man walks past a statue of Lenin lying in the backyard of Mogosoaia, Romania, December 11, 2009.
35. The famous statue of Lenin was dismantled and loaded into a truck in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, October 14, 2012.
36. A Bulgarian cleaner sweeps a monument to Lenin lying on the ground in Varna, Bulgaria, January 21, 1999.