Activists toppled three statues of Communist leaders overnight on April 10 in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, days after parliament passed a controversial bill designed to purge the country of Soviet-era symbols.
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Communal workers remove the toppled Soviet-era memorial for Nikolai Rudnev in Kharkiv on April 11.
