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Tanuki

(14,918 posts) Tue Jun 30, 2020, 06:22 AM Jun 2020

Soviet era statues sleep with the fishes

https://www.rferl.org/a/soviet-statues-underwater-off-crimea-peninsula/28023948.html

.... "The Alley Of Leaders, as the underwater site is called, began on August 25, 1992, when diving instructor Vladimir Borumenskiy lowered the first bust under the water.

.. ..the project began after the collapse of the U.S.S.R., when Soviet statues were being discarded and destroyed. The reviled sculptures were placed underwater "away from vandals' hands."...(more)

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Soviet era statues sleep with the fishes (Original Post) Tanuki Jun 2020 OP

Interesting. Never knew this. Thanks for posting! secondwind Jun 2020 #1

There are plenty of statues of Lenin in Russia. former9thward Jun 2020 #2

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

1. Interesting. Never knew this. Thanks for posting!

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Tue Jun 30, 2020, 06:55 AM

Jun 2020

former9thward

(31,981 posts)

2. There are plenty of statues of Lenin in Russia.

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Tue Jun 30, 2020, 08:22 AM

Jun 2020

I have seen them personally in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Not only that but Lenin's tomb is a place of national honor on Red Square. Stalin is buried right behind Lenin's mausoleum as well as a host of other Soviet dictators.

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