{"id":10413,"date":"2021-01-19T19:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T19:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/19\/goodbye-lenin-not-in-these-ukrainian-villages-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-19T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T19:21:31","slug":"goodbye-lenin-not-in-these-ukrainian-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/goodbye-lenin-not-in-these-ukrainian-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Lenin? Not In These Ukrainian Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"
All of Ukraine’s statues of Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin should have been taken down under a law passed in 2015. But in three small villages, indomitable Lenins still hold out — due to lack of money for demolition, apathy, and, in one case, a road so bad they couldn’t get a crane to it.
\nOriginally published at – https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/ukraine-lenin-statues\/31052671.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n