All monuments of Lenin to be removed from Russian cities

[Razor]

Russian lawmakers believe it is time to remove monuments to the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, from town and city squares across the country.
Memorials to such "a controversial figure" should be re-located in museums or alleys with statues of other historic persons, suggested the author of the initiative, Liberal-Democratic party (LDPR) Deputy Aleksandr Kurdyumov.
The idea of "De-Leninization" was welcomed by several members of the ruling United Russia party, writes Izvestia daily.
According to Kurdyumov, the main argument in favor of the removal of monuments is the high cost of maintenance. He says they would be better looked after and safe from vandalism in museums.

Soviet-legacy statues of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) can still be seen in central squares of almost all Russian towns. There is hardly a single settlement in the country without a street named after the Bolshevik leader.
The time has come to get rid of Lenin's "stranglehold" and leave only monuments that are considered true masterpieces of art and only in those places where local population want to see them, the LDPR lawmaker insists.
It often happens that there no other memorials but to Lenin in Russian towns and that is "unfair" to other outstanding personalities – such as Peter the Great, General Aleksandr Suvorov, Tsar Ivan the Terrible and others.

Under the proposal, municipal authorities should hold referendums to find out where people want the Lenin statues to be placed. If they do not want to see the leader of the 1917 Revolution at all, such monuments should be dismantled, sent to museums or sold to collectors, Kurdyumov suggests. The money received from the sales could be used, for instance, to create new parks.

Meanwhile, the Communist party (KPRF) is strongly opposed to the idea of removing monuments to their key ideologist.
"Lenin is the founding father of the Russian Federation"¦Same as George Washington in America," a senior member of the party, Sergey Obukhov stressed. He noted that some laws signed by the Bolshevik leader are still valid in Russia.
Besides that, the destruction of "architectural pieces" of historic value is illegal, the KPRF deputy pointed out.

Source: All monuments of Lenin to be removed from Russian cities

Note:
1. Liberal Democratic Party of Russia : Since its founding in 1991, it has been led by the charismatic and controversial figure Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Opposing both communism and the "wild" capitalism of the 1990s, the party scored a major success in the 1993 Russian Duma elections, receiving a plurality vote.
Despite the party's name, it is frequently described as "neither liberal nor democratic."[7] While the party describes itself as centrist and reformist, it is usually regarded as far-right and is identified with Russian ultranationalism, right-wing populism (or "national populism") and conservativism.[8][9][10] Its ideology is based primarily on Zhirinovsky's ideas of "imperial reconquest" (a "renewed Russian Empire")[11] and authoritarian vision of a 'Greater Russia.'"[10][12]
2.Vladimir Zhirinovsky
3. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

 

[Akim]

Ukraine:

Kiyv

Dnepropetrovsk

Kharkiv

Odessa

Mariupol

Donetsk
It's all big and rich cities of Ukraine. No one here is going to clean monuments to Lenin. Ha-ha , found guilty!

 

[Akim]

Finland:

Turku

Kotka
In Finland Lenin is considered almost a national hero, for that gave independence to this country!

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Memorials to such "a controversial figure" should be re-located in museums or alleys with statues of other historic persons, suggested the author of the initiative, Liberal-Democratic party (LDPR) Deputy Aleksandr Kurdyumov.

I cannot believe that will happen. I am a staunch-anti-communist and I would not want to see that happen.

I once stayed up all night to read Lenin's biography. His life was amazing.

 

[Akim]

The only remaining monument of Stalin, located in the city of Gori (Georgia). This is the town where he was born.

P.S. Here he is for science did not do anything! He was just a - a tyrant. In the USA in universities until now study a Marxist-Leninist economics, and we have 20 years she was "blotted" out, as science. Only now began again to revive.

 

[JBH22]

Not happy me too not a great commie sympathiser but Stalin and Lenin put Russia on world map

 

[Akim]

It often happens that there no other memorials but to Lenin in Russian towns and that is "unfair" to other outstanding personalities – such as Peter the Great,

Peter I, too, like Stalin, kept Russia ahead into the lead through ten of thousands of lives.

 

[Akim]

Not happy me too not a great commie sympathiser but Stalin and Lenin put Russia on world map

Stalin, too, can not be deleted from the history books. And he made a lot of positive (under his the guidance of the USSR won the war). But he is not worthy of massive monuments for the other sins!

 

[pmaitra]

The only remaining monument of Stalin, located in the city of Gori (Georgia). This is the town where he was born.

P.S. Here he is for science did not do anything! He was just a - a tyrant. In the USA in universities until now study a Marxist-Leninist economics, and we have 20 years she was "blotted" out, as science. Only now began again to revive.

Gori - birth place of Iosif Dzugashvili 'Stalin'
Simbirsk - birth place of Vladimir Ulyanov 'Lenin'

 

[The Messiah]

Thats like saying remove the images of founding fathers of usa because some of them owned black slaves and are thus "controversial figures".

 

[amoy]

That's not abt monuments but also abt how the history is dealt with.

In Taiwan, when DPP won the election many monuments / statues of Chiang, Kai-shek were also removed. Then Taoyuan County of Taiwan collected, and asked for the monuments and put all of them in a park near his tomb.

To some he was a dictator, to some he was a hero. Anyway he's part of the history as all agree upon.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

I think every city and town in the USA should have a statue of Obama. As time passes, people will blame him for their economic condition, not Bush.