Fremont’s Lenin statue is spattered with orange and yellow paint
The Soviet leader's bronze hands are often painted red. Other recent vandalism has symbolized the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
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Finland’s Lenin museum shifts focus amid tensions with Russia
A museum in Finland was long known as the last museum in Europe dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and founding father of the Soviet Union. While the museum long symbolized the ...
Life-size Lenin among Soviet art up for auction
A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton Auction ...
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The revolutionary lens: Andy Warhol’s Lenin series and the intersection of art, history and collecting
Andy Warhol’s choice to immortalize Vladimir Lenin might initially seem like an outlier. Known for his obsession with American consumerism, celebrity culture, and the sheen of surface-level ...
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Opinion: Lenin was right and Fukuyama was wrong
It turns out that Vladimir Lenin and REM were right. Francis Fukuyama was wrong. In 1921, during the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy period, Lenin is supposed to have exclaimed that “The ...
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Kolchak & Russia's Civil War
Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia is engulfed in a gigantic civil war. Lenin and the Reds hope to forge a new Soviet ...
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Life-size Lenin painting up for auction
W ho would not want to own a life-size portrait of a rosy-cheeked, grandfatherly Lenin? The painting, among others of Soviet origin and vintage, are up for grabs this week at the Wotton Auction ...