Authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, have removed a 75-foot (23-meter) statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be ...

The statue will be replaced by a flagpole, as was the case when a different Lenin statue was relocated in Bishek, according ...

Officials in Kyrgyzstan have taken down the country’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin—and replaced it with a flagpole.

Authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, have dismantled a 75-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin, Central Asia's "tallest Lenin monument", ...

Kyrgyzstan has dismantled a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin in the second-largest city, Osh, thought to be the tallest in ...

The city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan has dismantled a 23-meter statue of Vladimir Lenin, the tallest of its kind in Central Asia.

A flagpole will take the place of the former pedestal.

Vladimir Lenin. Originally built in 1999, the Freedom statue had been dubbed Kyrgyzstan's "Statue of Liberty" and moving it to the main square was supposed to symbolise a new start for the Central ...

A statue of Vladimir Lenin in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. (Photo: Adam Harangozó) For example, the Bolsheviks were the only party that (advocated) for Russia to pull out of the war (World War I, fighting Germany ...

AUTHORITIES in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Communist leader in central Asia.

Kyrgyzstan has taken down a huge statue of the revolutionary Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, which was thought to be the tallest in Central Asia. First erected when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet ...