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Photos: Leftover monuments to Lenin question his waning legacy
Monuments to Vladimir Lenin once canvassed the Soviet Union. With the fall of the USSR, many were toppled and 100 years after the revolution he led, few remain standing, along with a larger debate on his legacy.
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A bas-relief depicts Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin on a dam in Talas region, Kyrgyzstan. A century after the Russian Revolution, the influence of its leader Vladimir Lenin has waned but his image remains on monuments built across the former Soviet Union as part of a cult of personality. (Shamil Zhumatov / REUTERS)
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Cosmos Pavilion under reconstruction at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy in Moscow. The coat of arms of the USSR, of the 15 former Soviet republics and the emblems of the sectors of the economy were found at the base of the dome of the pavilion behind false panels during restoration work. (Maxim Shemetov / Reuters)
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A monument to Vladimir Lenin stands at a park of the Siberian town of Uzhur in Krasnoyarsk region of Russia. Lenin was born in 1870 and became one of the 20th century’s most important leaders as the revolution inspired by Karl Marx transformed Russia and influenced Socialists around the world for decades. (Ilya Naymushin / REUTERS)
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A damaged bust of Lenin lies at a private abandoned courtyard outside Tbilisi. As the first leader of the one-party communist state, Lenin redistributed land and nationalised industry and banks in a bid to champion the working class. He also used violence on a wide scale to crush perceived opponents of Marxist ideology. (David Mdzinarishvili / REUTERS)
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A detailed view of Lenin’s monument is seen in the settlement of Ordzhonikidze, Crimea. (Pavel Rebrov / REUTERS)
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Monuments to Vladimir Lenin stand at the museum of social realism in Frumushika-nova, Ukraine. Many of the memorials have been toppled or removed since the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 but others remain, reflecting a debate in Russia about his legacy. (Gleb Garanich / REUTERS)
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A panel with a portrait of Vladimir Lenin and an abandoned building are seen at the 30km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the abandoned village of Orevichi, Belarus. When he died in 1924, Soviet authorities displayed his embalmed body in a mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square where it lies to this day. (Vasily Fedosenko / REUTERS)
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A Soviet-Era monument with a sickle and a hammer which were displayed on the coat of arms of the Soviet Union, stands in Simferopol, Crimea. (Pavel Rebrov / REUTERS)
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A cobalt glass mosaic panel with a portrait of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin is seen at the Krasnoyarsk hydro electric power station, second largest in Russia, located outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Many of the memorials have been toppled or removed since the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 but others remain, reflecting a debate in Russia about his legacy. (Ilya Naymushin / REUTERS)
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A monument to Lenin stands in the settlement of Kovylnoye in the Razdolnensky district of Crimea. (Pavel Rebrov / REUTERS)
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