The former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan had dismantled the highest Lenin statue in Central Asia. The monument, including 23 meters high in the southern city of OSK, is laid and replaced by a Kyrgyz flag on a 95 meter high mast
The bronze statue was removed on Saturday evening and show amateur photos on the central square of the city in front of the town hall.
The campaign “should not be politized”, emphasized the town hall of the second largest city in the country on Saturday, because there are examples of “Russian cities in which Lenin monuments were also dismantled or transferred”. It is a “usual practice that aims to improve the architectural and aesthetic appearance of the cities”.
Lenin statutes disappear
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, countless images of Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin have been removed in the former Soviet Republics, whose Bolsheviks had taken over the power after the October Revolution in 1917.
In recent years, Russian -sounding places have been renamed Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to strengthen national identity. This met indignation in political circles in Russia.
Source: Krone
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