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Euronews report on the toppling of Lenin statue in Independence Square in Kiev.

Body parts from the demolished statue made available for sale online to earn monetary support for pro-Kiev volunteer battalions in the east.

Number of existing and toppled Lenin monuments visualized

the timeline of toppled Lenin statues in Ukraine

an artistic take on the Leninopad phenomenon in Ukraine

a special 1hr40min-long TV program from the Russian channel "Rossiia 1" dedicated entirely to the topic of Leninopad

video compilation of the toppling of Lenin monuments in a number of Ukrainian cities

Top cities in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus with the largest number of existing Lenin monuments (as of October 2014)

a map showing the statues of Lenin still standing after Leninopad in Ukraine

In this New York Review of Books piece, Vladimir Sorokin reflects on the symbolism of the toppled monuments, drawing parallels and making distinctions between how it was done in Russia in 1991 and in Ukraine in 2014, and raising the question of what…