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an artistic take on the Leninopad phenomenon in Ukraine

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

the timeline of toppled Lenin statues in Ukraine

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…

a history of the Lenin statue in Kiev (toppled in December 2013)

In order to protect the monument in Zaporozhie from "leninopad," an activist dressed the statue in a traditional Ukranian shirt ("vyshivanka").