This is a lesson the Russian people have not learnt yet, and it will continuo to destroy their personal identity for lack of self respect and love to your own people and country and eventually will divide them more and more until they become servants of another country, and that is what will happen for certain. They need to learn from US in spite of several incompetent and villan presidents through out its history they still will not discuss or allow the possibility to remove them from street names, symbols or stop recognizing the part of the history in which they were part of. The moment the Russians  allows some part of the population to destroy the identity and history of your own country, that moment the institutions and power of that country in this case Russia will no longer be in charge of its own people and will be at mercy or another country's identity and culture . I am not communist, but I believe that Lenin was an extraordinary figure of its time and served his country for unity and strength and they shall never forget that. Those who wants to discredit the image of a person like Lenin is a servant of another country and is doing this deed for personal ambitions and greed. To become into power, become rich and place Russia on the hands of another potency and destroy Russian history. (Putin read this)