Lenin’s latest role: statue scares off Swedish robbers
Published: 10 November, 2008, 15:42
A Swedish businessman has put a four metre high statue of Vladimir Lenin in front of his office – in a bid to scare off car thieves.
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Taxi drivers in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg are accepting Soviet money, but for one day only – Wednesday marks 138 years since the birth of Vladimir Lenin, the father of the Russian October revolution, and the first de facto leader of the
Vladimir Lenin’s embalmed body has been in Red Square for more than 80 years, but former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says it’s time for him to be buried. He wants Lenin’s body and tomb to be removed from the square.
It happened 38 years ago, back in the Soviet era, in a remote area near the Siberian border with Kazakhstan. Locals decided to celebrate the 100th birthday of Vladimir Lenin, the driving force behind the Socialist Revolution and the creator of the Soviet
Published: 10 November, 2008, 15:42
A Swedish businessman has put a four metre high statue of Vladimir Lenin in front of his office – in a bid to scare off car thieves.