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In 2015 he garnered worldwide attention when he modified a Vladimir Lenin statue in Odesa, Ukraine. He transformed the statue into a figure of Darth Vader. [4] [5] In 2019 he created the sculpture Listen to the World and it was displayed at Vivid Sydney. [3] In 2021 he designed a coronavirus monument which will be displayed in Dubai. The design ...
Statue of Lenin Novomoskovsk: 2 August 2015 Toppled [36] Statue of Lenin "Pressmash" Factory, Odesa: 23 October 2015 Transformed into a statue of Darth Vader [37] Statue of Lenin: Podilsk: 8 December 2013: Broken into several pieces [26] Statue of Lenin Pryluky: Dismantled Bust of Lenin Sievierodonetsk: 1 October 2014 Set on fire and dismantled ...
In October 2015, a statue of Lenin in Odesa was converted into a statue of Star Wars villain Darth Vader. [32] On 16 December 2015, the Kyiv District Administrative Court validated the claim of the Ministry of Justice in full, banning the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Darth Vader (/ d ɑːr ... In 2015, a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Odesa, Ukraine, was converted into one of Vader due to a law on decommunization. [146]
The controversial Bronze Soldier of Tallinn monument, vandalized in protest of the Russian invasion on Ukraine, 12 April 2022.. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that had commenced in February 2022, a number of Soviet-era monuments and memorials were demolished or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced in former Eastern Bloc Soviet satellite states, as well as several ...
In 2015, as a part of the decommunization process in Ukraine, a statue of a Vladimir Lenin was modified into a monument to Darth Vader at the territory of Pressmash plant in Odesa. [59] [60] In the 2020 Odesa local election, a person called Darth Vader was again a candidate for mayor of Odesa (nominated by Darth Vader Bloc). [61]
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 fall of the monument to Lenin in Kyiv took place on December 8, 2013. [20] [21] Andriievo-Ivanove (Odesa Oblast): Lenin statue was broken in half on January 4, 2014. [22] Zhytomyr and Boiarka: Lenin statues were toppled by protesters on February 20, 2014. [23] Khmelnytskyi: Lenin statue was mounted from 1970 to 1992. It was designed by E ...