For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch above the central square. Then one morning, he disappeared.

The monument, they said, will be replaced by a flagpole, as was the case when a different Lenin statue was relocated in the capital, Bishkek. The move came a week after Kyrgyzstan’s ally Russia ...

Officials also noted that Lenin monuments have been “dismantled or moved to other places” in Russian cities including St Petersburg and Belgorod, and said that the issue “should not be ...

The Lenin statue was removed, but the pedestal remained. The Controversy In 2022, a city commission decided to erect a monument to Ridder, producing a 3-meter statue at a cost of 30 million tenge ...

Approximately 7,000 statues of Lenin were placed around Russia during the Soviet era, with 6,000 estimated to still exist. Since 2013, Ukraine has demolished the majority of its Communist monuments.

I’m sorry that the Lenin statue in Fremont causes pain for columnist David Volodzko. However, I think for most of us when it was erected we understood the gesture as a monument to the fall of ...

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia.

In Osh, Kyrgyzstan, authorities have dismantled a 75-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be the tallest of its kind in Central Asia. Erected in 1975, when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet ...

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia. The 23 ...

Authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, have removed a 75-foot (23-meter) statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, ... monument was erected in 1975 when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet Union.