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The Ukrainians pulled down all their remaining statues of Lenin in the wake of the 2014 Maidan protests and the Revolution of Dignity. They did so because they saw in Lenin an important tie not only to Soviet times but also to present-day Russia and wanted to cut it. But Lenin’s legacy to Ukraine is complex. He managed to bring Ukraine back into Moscow’s fold after it declared independence in 1918, but the price he paid for doing so seems excessive to present-day Russian opinion makers.
full: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/19/russian-revolution-centenary-ukrainians-not-celebrating-conflict
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