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    The Statue of Lenin in Kharkiv was a sculpture monument to Vladimir Lenin, located in Freedom Square, Kharkiv, Ukraine, that was toppled and demolished...
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    territory was standing in Kharkiv (20.2 m high). This statue of Lenin in Kharkiv was toppled and destroyed on 28 September 2014. In February 2019, The Guardian...
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  • Sofia – in Lenin Square (now St Nedelya Square), installed in 1966 and pulled down in January 1991; the site is now occupied by the Statue of Sveta Sofia...
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    destruction of which by ultranationalists was opposed by the majority of Kyiv's residents. The Statue of Lenin in Kharkiv - the largest statue of Lenin in Ukraine...
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    the monument to Lenin in Kyiv on 8 December 2013, several Lenin monuments and statues were removed or destroyed by protesters. In April 2014, a year before...
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    buildings. In 2014, the square was the site of demonstrations by pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian activists in Kharkiv. The issue was the statue of Lenin, which...
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    Ukraine in 2022 the discussion of removing these symbols started to heat. Statues of Lenin were removed from Turku and Kotka supposedly as "a gesture of solidarity"...
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    Located in the northeast of the country, it is the largest city of the historic region of Sloboda Ukraine. Kharkiv is the administrative centre of Kharkiv Oblast...
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    The Vladimir Lenin monument in Kyiv was a statue dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The larger...
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    Technology was renamed the Kharkiv V.I. Lenin Polytechnic Institute (KhPI), a name kept until the fall of the Soviet Union. In 1930, five independent higher-educational...
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  • 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014. "Ukraine nationalists tear down Kharkiv's Lenin statue". BBC News. 28 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014. "Latest...
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  • Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. In its operations, the Central Committee was governed by the program and statue of the CPSU, decisions of the CPSU congresses...
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    Izium (redirect from History of Izium)
    Donets River in Kharkiv Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Izium Raion. Izium hosts the administration of Izium urban hromada...
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    Mikhail Frunze (category Candidates of the Orgburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks))
    ideological split, he sided with Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction. He led the textile workers strike in Ivanovo during the 1905 Russian Revolution...
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    Grigory Petrovsky (category Recipients of the Order of Lenin)
    Dnipropetrovsk was demolished on 29 January 2016. In April 2014 the local statue of Vladimir Lenin had already been demolished. Петровський Григорій Іванович...
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    Soviet collapse, some Ukrainian cities replaced their statues of Lenin with statues of Shevchenko. In some locations that lacked streets named after him...
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    Melitopol railway station (category Railway stations in Zaporizhzhia Oblast)
    Kharkiv – Novooleksievka Dnipro – Novooleksievka statue of Lenin on Pryvokzalna Square, since removed in 2015 Main facade from the city side Железнодорожные...
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    Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Pushkin's situation turned out to be quite similar to the destruction of monuments to Lenin known as Leninopad...
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    320 Lenin monuments were dismantled during decommunization. Fall of the monument to Lenin in Kyiv List of statues of Vladimir Lenin List of statues of Stalin...
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    in 1922, Stalin assumed leadership over the country following Lenin's death in 1924. Under Stalin, socialism in one country became a central tenet of...
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    Horlivka (redirect from History of Horlivka)
    7 parks, 29 libraries, 7 cinemas. Despite the fall of communism a statue of Lenin still stands in a central square bearing his name. Horlivka is well...
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  • Ukrainian decommunization laws (category Law of Ukraine)
    monuments and 1,069 monuments to other communist figures removed. In some villages Lenin statues were remade into "non-communist historical figures" to save...
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    to Russian communism by 2020 in accordance with the de-communism law of 2015, including 1,320 statues or busts of Lenin. Additional monuments were removed...
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    Monument to the Don Cossacks (category Equestrian statues in Russia)
    was bought by the Ministry of Culture of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and was exhibited in Art museum of Kharkiv. N Mozhaev presented Mikhail...
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    development of Leninism, and while Stalin avoided using the term "Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism", he allowed others to do so. Following Lenin's death, Stalin...
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    Pro-Russian protesters stood guard over the statue of Vladimir Lenin in the city center, but the deputy head of the Regional State Administration announced...
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    to blow up a statue of Vladimir Lenin. At the same time, there was an armed assault on the headquarters of Patriot of Ukraine in Kharkiv during which...
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    Maxim Gorky (category Recipients of the Order of Lenin)
    personal friend of Vladimir Lenin after they met in 1902. He exposed governmental control of the press (see Matvei Golovinski affair). In 1902, Gorky was...
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    started in early September 1918 and lasted until 1922. Arising after assassination attempts on Vladimir Lenin along with the successful assassinations of Petrograd...
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    Trial": The Kharkiv Case of the "Union for the Liberation of Ukraine" in 1930 in the Public and Political Thought of Galicia]. Україна Модерна (in Ukrainian)...
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