[Drew68]

The statue is local and is returned to the exact place where it was for decades, until a couple of years ago it was removed by the Kiev regime.

I took a photo standing next to a statue of Lenin when I visited Luhansk Oblast in 2006. Some of them never left.

[tlozo]

Some of the never left

In 2015 Ukraine started decommunization process removing communist symbols. By 2017 all Lenin statues were removed except for two that were in the Chernobyl zone.

[mvonfr]

In 2006 Ukraine was not yet into total rejection of communism.

Remember that the Kiev’s regime was initially a project of the Ukrainian Communist Party (who was the 1st Ukrainian president?)... it took them a while to drift toward nationalism and then Nazis and removal of communist Heritage followed.

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Incidentally, it is the Ukrainians that should worship Lenin — he gifted them huge territories which had no connection to Ukraine,... and this is one reason we have a war now.