Before Ukraine declared independence in 1991, statues of Vladimir Lenin were an inescapable part of the landscape. Some 5,500 monuments were dotted across the country; practically every town had one and most bigger cities had several hundred.
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Lenin statues are pictured at the open-air museum in Frumushyka-Nova, some 170 km from south Ukrainian city of Odesa on Oct. 4, 2017.
