Lenin sculptures in non-socialist countries

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Lenin Monument in the Netherlands; 2009

Lenin monuments have been erected in numerous cities of the Soviet Union and other socialist countries since the death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin . They emerged in the course of a personality cult developed around him and were intended to honor Lenin as a communist pioneer and founder of the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the political change, many of these monuments were dismantled or destroyed. Outside of the former Eastern Bloc there were and still are some Lenin monuments. Only these are presented in the following article and are sorted by continent. Very few sculptures were in the places mentioned here before 1990. They have often gotten to their current locations by gift or purchase.

Africa

Zimbabwe
Ethiopia
  • Addis Ababa : oversized copper statue, destroyed in spring 1991.

America

United States of America
Headless Lenin sculpture in the Casino Mandalay Bey , Las Vegas
Note: The sculptures erected in the United States after 1990 all come from the earlier socialist countries that “disposed of” their monuments .
Canada
  • Vancouver : a large metalized Lenin head with a small Mao Zedong on the skull, made by the Chinese artists Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang. They try to keep the balance ( Vancouver - Statue of Lennin & Mao who is trying to keep the balance ) The Critique Statue is shown on the occasion of art festivals in other cities in North America. In spring 2015 it should have been exhibited in Los Angeles , in May / June 2015 it is at the Biennale in Richmond .

Antarctic

  • Open-air bust at the research station Pol of Inaccessibility, which was established at the time of the Soviet Union

Asia

India
  • Kolkata , bronze sculpture on a square red high base;
    stands at the beginning of the former Esplanade boulevard
  • Vijayawada
  • New Delhi , this monument in Nehru Park was inaugurated in November 1987 on the occasion of a visit by the then Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev .

Europe

Denmark
  • Hørsholm (1986–1996; is now in the Workers' Museum in Copenhagen)
  • Herning : a large copper statue is placed on two supports so that it looks like a laying out. The subtitle is "The LENIN aera is now finished".
Germany (West)

  • Frankfurt am Main ; Bust of Lenin in the Explora Museum .
    The bronze bust rescued from a junkyard was equipped with backlit 3-D glasses by the concept artist M. Charlamov and placed in front of the museum. Due to planned restructuring, the bust was to be removed at this point, it was for sale.
  • Gelsenkirchen ; Lenin statue in front of the headquarters of the Marxist-Leninist Party (MLPD); set up on June 20, 2020
  • Gundelfingen : A stone statue of Lenin that existed in Dresden until 1992 was brought here. The city on the Danube had released this for auction, but received no bid.
  • Mannheim : A Lenin bust is on display in the art gallery of the city of Mannheim.
Finland

Some monuments from the former Soviet Union were also offered to Finnish cities or companies after 1990. The origin of the two statues in their normal condition is (so far) unknown.

Italy
Netherlands
  • Bad Nieuweschans , a small town in the province of Groningen ; The owner of a construction company bought the statue from Merseburg in 1997 . Since then, he has let her wander around in the province of Groningen, where she has already stood in Tjuchem (from 1997), Enschede (2009), Bad Nieuweschans (from 2010) and Assen (2012/13) and for exhibitions on the GDR SU myths advertised. From June 2013 to April 2020 she was back in the Bad Nieuweschans spa. After the spa changed hands, it was outsourced in April 2019.
Norway
Sweden
Spain
United Kingdom
  • Above the entrance to the Kremlin Bar in Belfast , Northern Ireland

photos

  • Tjuchem (Netherlands) (1998)

  • Assen (Netherlands) (2012)

  • Kolkata

  • Berlin-Kreuzberg (2012)

  • New York City (USA) (1994)

Web links

Commons : Statues of Lenin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ethiopia: Operation Theodoros . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1991, pp. 140 ( online - May 27, 1991 , photo and brief mention of the fall of the Lenin monument).
  2. ↑ Photo of the Lenin monument in Addis Ababa on panoramio.com ; Photo of the statue; accessed on January 30, 2014
  3. ↑ Fremont: Lenin statue with picture and explanatory text (English) ; accessed on January 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ Private travelogue online with photos and text about the Lenin statue in Seattle ; accessed on January 13, 2014.
  5. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/nyregion/lenin-statue-lower-east-side.html
  6. ↑ Lenin and Mao in Vancouver on panoramio.com , photo from 2012
  7. ↑ a b Lenin all over the world . In: Berliner Zeitung , Magazin, 23./24./25. May 2015, p. 3
  8. ↑ Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin's Head . Message on www.richmond.ca; Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  9. ↑ Lenin bust in Antarctica at www.nwzonline.de, accessed on July 3, 2020.
  10. ↑ Website The Delhi Walls from November 20, 2013 ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thedelhiwalla.com
  11. ↑ Photo of the Lenin statue in Herning on panoramio.com
  12. ↑ Brief explanatory text and photo of the Lenin bust in the Expora Museum on leninisstillaround.com, October 2016.
  13. ↑ Photo unveiling of the Lenin Monument on June 20, 2020; Report Die Welt
  14. ↑ Stefan Locke: Lenin stays on the left. No auction offers for the Lenin Monument , on www.faz.net.de, accessed on July 3, 2020.
  15. ↑ Waltraud Kirsch-Mayer: New traces lead to the Lenin bust in: Mannheimer Morgen , April 30, 2020; accessed on July 3, 2020.
  16. ↑ Ulanlog , Tag Archive for »Soviet Union« (scroll to November 2nd); accessed on January 13, 2014.
  17. ↑ Lenin bust relocated in April 2019; Message rtvnoord.nl