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DONETSK, Ukraine — Thousands of pro-Ukrainian demonstrators in the eastern city of Kharkiv toppled a massive monument to former Soviet Union leader Vladimir Lenin on Sunday.
In a scene reminiscent of the Euromaidan Revolution last winter, protesters surrounded the massive statue at Kharkiv’s Freedom Square and cheered in support as a man with an angle grinder sawed off one of Lenin’s legs. Then the crowd wrenched the ex-head of state’s likeness to the ground with ropes.
Lenin has become a highly divisive figure in this former Soviet republic, where a six-month-long war that Kiev and the West say is backed by Russia has raged in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, resulting in the deaths of more than 3,000 people, according to the United Nations. Read more...
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