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The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.

Gelsenkirchen, Germany: a Controversial statue of Lenin erected in the German city of

May 2,2024 8:30 am

The Statue was unveiled next to a poster that reads: 'Don't give anti-communism A Chance '

A very left-wing party in Germany erected a controversial statue of The Communist leader Vladimir Lenin .

The small Marxist-Leninist party of Germany (MLPD) installed The Statue in front of their headquarters in the Western City of Gelsenkirchen.

The City Council had tried to stop The Statue , installed and launched an on-line hashtag to say it was "No Place for Lenin".

But the courts blocked their vocation, and the idea went on on Saturday.

Lenin was one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and led the country until his death in 1924, when he became the successor to Josef Stalin. However, he remained a symbol of communism, the domination of The World , both among the Fans and who the Human Rights violations that have taken place under the USSR.

Germany was divided for decades between The West and The Communist East, to The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

In The Debate around Gelsenkirchen statue from Czechoslovakia, which was then, as it is known, in 1957, both sides moved in parallel to the tearing down of monuments associated with slavery, which in anti-racism protests in The World in the last few weeks.

"We Live in a Time In which to reflect many of the countries of The World memorial," said mayor Frank Baranowski in a series of YouTube videos posted by the Council of The City against The Statue .

"It's hard to put up with the fact that a dictator of the 21St Century will be put on a pedestal, and a memorial is made of him. Unfortunately, the courts have decided otherwise, we have to accept it, but not without comment. "

But, MLPD chair, Gabi Fechtner, described The Communist leader as a "a front-of-his-time-thinker of world-historical significance, an early fighter for freedom and democracy," according to the AFP news Agency .



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Source of news: bbc.com

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