Case Studies
Kharkiv, September 28, 2014
Kiev, December 8, 2013
Saving Lenin in Zaporozhie
What better way to save Lenin than to "give the leader of the people a patriotism shot" ("сделать прививку патриотизмом вождю народа") and to dress him in a traditional Ukrainian shirt "vyshivanka"?
Yurii Gudymenko, a journalist turned performance artist, offers a different take on memory: "I consider Lenin to be an unambiguously negative character, but instead of disposing of him, it'd be better to hang a plaque nearby listing all his sins against the Ukranian people" ("Я считаю Ленина героем однозначно негативным, но вместо того, чтобы его убрать, лучше повесить рядом табличку со всеми его грехами против украинского народа").