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The Statue of Lenin is a 16 ft (5 m) bronze statue of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.It was created by Bulgarian-born Slovak sculptor Emil Venkov and initially put on display in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1988, the year before the Velvet Revolution.
Riesa – Statue of Lenin moved from former Lenin Square in 1991 into a park nearby Soviet war graves. Renovated in 2022. [39] Leninplatz, East Berlin, Germany (removed in 1992) Schwerin – Statue of Lenin, made by the Estonian sculptor Jaak Soans and inaugurated on June 22, 1985. Even nowadays this monument is still causing heated debates ...
The East Village Lenin Statue is an 18-foot (5.5 m) statue of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that stands on the roof of 178 Norfolk Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. [2]
Statue of Lenin erected by the East German Marxist–Leninist government at Leninplatz in East Berlin (removed in 1992) Various historians and biographers have characterised Lenin's administration as a police state , [ 528 ] and many have described it as a one-party dictatorship, [ 529 ] and Lenin as a dictator. [ 530 ]
The Vladimir Lenin monument in Kyiv was a statue dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The larger than life-size (3.45 meters [11.32 feet]) Lenin monument was built by Russian sculptor Sergey Merkurov from the same red Karelian stone as Lenin's Mausoleum .
The 19-meter tall statue was carved from red granite and depicted Lenin standing in front of a flag. The opposite side featured a relief of German and Soviet workers shaking hands. [1] The statue was conceived to stand in front of a new housing project in Friedrichshain designed by prominent architect Hermann Henselmann. [3]
Statue of Lenin at Finland Station; U. Ulyanovsk This page was last edited on 11 May 2019, at 02:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
This "taxi-hailing" pose is common to many Lenin statues, though Berkeley Professor Laura Bonnell states that this depiction differs from later versions in that Lenin's arm is used to indicate a directional movement, rather than offering a benediction to the masses. [8] [9] The statue's left hand holds the lapels of Lenin's overcoat and suit ...