When Ukraine broke from the Soviet Union in 1991, it never bothered to clear away the hammers and sickles that marked it as a workers' paradise. Now it is making a belated effort to declare independence from the communist past - and workers are racing through the country to take down old Soviet symbols.
Washington Post: Ukraine topples Communist statues but raises a bigger debate
A red flag rises near a monument to the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin in Russia's second city of St. Petersburg, on April 22, 2014, as Communist party members and supporters mark the144th anniversary of Lenin's birth.
