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News channel or source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/kyrgyzstan-removes-towering-lenin-statue-073948719.html
Published on: Saturday 07 June 2025
FILE - Local residents, Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, receive humanitarian aid in front of a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on a central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Culture: In Kyrgyzstan’s Osh, Lenin statue goes 34 years after Soviet collapse
News channel or source: https://eurasianet.org/in-kyrgyzstans-osh-lenin-statue-goes-34-years-after-soviet-collapse
Published on: Tuesday 10 June 2025
For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch above the central square. Then one morning, he disappeared. Residents of ...