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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 ...
Central Asia’s largest Lenin statue taken down to be replaced by flagpole - Officials said that the issue ‘should not be ...
A colossal statue of Vladimir Lenin that towered over the Kyrgyz city of Osh has been taken down, closing a Soviet chapter ...
Officials in Kyrgyzstan have taken down the country’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin—and replaced it with a flagpole.
Russian ally Kyrgyzstan on Saturday quietly dismantled Central Asia's tallest monument to Vladimir Lenin, the revolutionary ...
The city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan has dismantled a 23-meter statue of Vladimir Lenin, the tallest of its kind in Central Asia.
Authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, have dismantled a 75-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin, Central Asia's "tallest Lenin monument", ...
Between the 1920s and 1950s, the Soviet Union experienced one of the most brutal internal campaigns in modern history. Known ...
While many countries formerly part of the Soviet Union have moved to downplay their ... Officials also noted that Lenin monuments have been “dismantled or moved to other places” in Russian ...
Kyrgyzstan has dismantled a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin in the second-largest city, Osh, thought to be the tallest in ...