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On Sep 5, 2012, at 8:56 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> Are there more Lenin statues left than Stalin statues? Is anyone making new Stalin statues?
>
> Inquiring minds want to know....
>
> Joanna
>
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> andie_nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
>
> Well, they must have put them back up, then, because last I was there
> they were down or coming down. They shut the Lenin Museum off Red
> Square decades ago. I have no idea what they did with the typewriter
> on which he was said to have written Imperialism, or his armored
> Rolls, or his underwear. And they renamed Leningrad back to St.
> Petersburg, what, in 1991? I think the polls consistently show that
> Stalin remains more popular, though both of them decreasingly so.
>
> ^^^^^^
>
> https://www.google.com/webhp?source=search_app#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=statues+of+lenin+in+russia&oq=statues+of+lenin+in+russia&gs_l=serp.12..0i30.8538426.8546306.0.8556789.26.18.0.5.5.2.1874.6072.0j9j4j1j2j1j8-1.18.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.b01td5RkpBw&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=bf525e541b623bda&biw=1440&bih=783
>
> ^^^^^
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statues_of_Lenin
>
> In the Soviet Union, many cities had monuments of Vladimir Lenin. With
> the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, many of them were broken
> with no permission from their authors. This happened even earlier in
> the European post-Communist states and in the Baltic states. However,
> in many of the former Soviet Republics (namely Russia, Belarus and
> Ukraine) many remain, and some new ones have been erected.[1]
> In Ukraine Lenin monuments[2] and other Soviet-era monuments are still
> being removed.[3] But on the occasion of the 139th anniversary of
> Lenin two new Lenin monuments were erected in Luhansk Oblast.[1]
>
> http://en.rian.ru/columnists/20120709/174504025.html
>
>
> Deeper Than Oil: How Many Lenin Statues?!
> 23:58 09/07/2012
> Weekly column by Marc Bennetts
>
> Do you know how many Lenin statues there are in Moscow? That was the
> question I posed to friends and acquaintances on Monday after an
> evening of research (it was a quiet evening). No one guessed the
> answer. It's been more than twenty years since the collapse of the
> Soviet Union, yet there remain 82 Lenin statues in the Russian
> capital! And that's the official number. Connoisseurs say there are at
> least another ten the authorities have missed. You can check them out
> here.
>
> © RIA Novosti.
> Marс Bennetts
> Yes, I was stunned as well.
> Oddly enough, there are a mere three in the centre of Moscow, with the
> rest located in the city suburbs. Not far from the capital, in the
> small town of Dubna, stands the second largest Lenin statue in the
> world, at 25 meters (37m if you include the pedestal.) In case you
> were wondering, as you undoubtedly were, the largest Lenin statue on
> the planet is in Volgograd, which is also home to the gigantic Mother
> Russia World War II monument (they don't do things by half in
> Volgograd).
> All across Russia, there are scores more monuments to the father of
> the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. There's an odd and massive disembodied
> Lenin head in east Siberia's Ulan-Ude. A tiny, bronze Lenin monument
> set among the magnificent scenery of the remote, mountainous Altai
> Republic. A coal-caked Lenin in the industrial city of Novokuznetsk.
> And so on. Communist Party head Gennady Zyuganov even attended the
> unveiling of a newly restored Lenin statue in the Urals city of Ufa
> late last year.
>
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