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BBC: Controversial Lenin statue erected in German city

By BBC.
A red flag is seen above a bust of the Soviet state founder and revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin as Russian Communist party members and supporters attend a flower-laying ceremony marking the 149th anniversary of his birth, on Red Square in Moscow, April 22, 2019.
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A far-left party in Germany has erected a controversial statue of communist leader Vladimir Lenin. The tiny Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) installed the statue in front of its headquarters in the western city of Gelsenkirchen. City authorities had attempted to stop the statue being installed and launched an online hashtag saying there was “no place for Lenin”.

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