Lenin Monument (Gelsenkirchen)

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The Lenin Memorial for the founder of the Soviet Union Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Gelsenkirchen ( Horst district ) was unveiled on June 20, 2020. This act was preceded by a discussion lasting several months as to whether the list was up to date.

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It is the first installation of a monument in the narrower sense after 1990 in a traditionally western country. The cast metal statue was given a place in front of the federal headquarters of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD). According to the MLPD, the roughly two meter high figure was cast in the Soviet Union in the 1930s . Other sources report that the statue was made in Czechoslovakia in 1957 .

The city administration of Gelsenkirchen had protested against the erection of the monument and wanted to prevent the project by means of a legal freeze . But the Gelsenkirchen Administrative Court and the Münster Higher Administrative Court granted permission to set up the property on the property owned by the party. The leadership of the party considers “Lenin to be a pioneer of world history and a champion for freedom and democracy for the masses”.

One day before the unveiling of the monument, the city opened the exhibition Communism in its Age in Schloss Horst , which is located directly opposite the MLPD party headquarters . It is intended to promote a critical examination of the ideology of communism . There is also the digital video project #keinplatzfuerlenin .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unveiling of the Lenin statue in Gelsenkirchen. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Lenin comes to Gelsenkirchen. MLPD, accessed on July 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ MLPD erects a statue of Lenin. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 20, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ MLPD unveils Lenin statue in Gelsenkirchen. In: The world . June 20, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ More than two meters tall Lenin statue unveiled in front of the MLPD headquarters. In: The time . June 20, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Demonstrations in front of the MLPD headquarters , at www.zeit-de; accessed on July 2, 2020.
  7. ^ Debate about the Lenin monument in Gelsenkirchen on www1.wdr.de ( West ART ); accessed on July 2, 2020.
  8. ^ "No space for Lenin" on the gelsenkirchen.de website , accessed on July 3, 2020

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 10.1 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 28 ″  E