What Happened to Ukraine’s 5,500 Lenin Statues? – The New York Times

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What Happened to Ukraine’s 5,500 Lenin Statues? – The New York Times

When the statue of Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine’s Bessarabska Square started coming down on Dec. 8, 2013, Swiss photographer Niels Ackermann was watching it on television at a pizzeria less than a mile away. He left his food and raced to the scene.