For decades of Soviet empire, statues of founding father Vladimir Lenin presided triumphantly over city squares and parks. When the USSR collapsed in 1990, thousands of Lenin statues remained on their pedestals, 5,500 of them in Ukraine alone. Today, not a single one remains standing in Ukraine. The story of what happened to these statues is the story of Ukraine’s post-Soviet history. It’s a tale told by our guest, Kiev-based journalist Sébastien Gobert, in his new book “Looking for Lenin”. …read more
Source: France 24
