How a Lenin monument ended up in Nazi Germany
How a Lenin monument ended up in Nazi Germany RBTH 19 May 2021, 20:55 GMT+10 How did a bronze Lenin statue from a St. Petersburg suburb find its way to a town in central Germany and who saved it from being melted down? On July 2, 1945, Soviet troops entered the town of Eisleben, the birthplace of theologian Martin Luther. To their surprise, among medieval buildings in the town's main square, there stood a monument to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by famous Soviet sculptor Matvey Manizer (1891-1966). That was the first monument to Lenin in Germany. But how did it end up on Nazi territory? Ilyich in Dy...
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