36 Lenins

underwater museum, Black Sea                                       AP/Sergey Dolzhenko

Standing, toppled, underwater, in ice, in forest and field and warehouse, honored, demeaned, and reconstructed ~ statues of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, aka Lenin, around the world betray the gamut of attitudes toward the Russian Communist revolutionary under whose auspices Russia became the Soviet Union (slideshow): http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/10/statue-or-bust-around-the-world-in-lenins/100829/