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Lenin around Ukraine

This is a humorous collection of "faces of Lenin" I have encountered in my travels around Ukraine. Many Lenin monuments have been taken down since the fall of the Soviet Union, but many remain as a reminder of days past.

"Lenin lived, lives, and will live on!"

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Lenin in Kiev presides disapprovingly over a "capitalistic" Mister Snack fast food restaurant. "It's all a dastardly imperialistic plot!"	Kiev's ram-headed Lenin wields a wicked snowball in winter	A messianic Lenin reaches out to his sheep on Kharkov's Freedom Square	"Follow me! I know the way to a bright future!" — beckons Lenin in Kharkov
Lenin takes an unrelenting pummeling of snow like a man in Zhytomyr	An understandably cranky Lenin grudgingly wears a painful nose clamp and unflattering cap in Berdychiv	Bruised and battered, but still defiant, Lenin in Berdychiv stands underneath a Ukrainian flag — perhaps a symbol of the "friendship of brother nations?"	An unusually suave and debonair Lenin stands nonchalantly on Alupka's central square in Crimea
Lenin alone does not sweat in the sweltering heat of Bakhchisaray, Crimea	Lenin's chiseled and manly features unfailingly inspire workers at the "Ilyich Agrofirm" in Crimea despite premature baldness

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