A demonstrator in a Pikachu costume reacts as global environmental activists protest against the gas industry during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku.
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Monday 18 November 2024
A statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin in Prague's Dejvice neighborhood, photographed in 1981
The statue was unveiled in 1972, then pulled down in 1990 in the wake of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that overthrew communist rule in Czechoslovakia. The statue's base -- shaped like a kicker ramp -- was a popular spot for skateboarders until it was removed in 2007 and the space grassed over.
Thirty-five years after the Velvet Revolution threw off Soviet-backed communist rule in Czechoslovakia, we visited some of the sites in Prague where monuments once stood and propaganda posters loomed over passersby.