Searching For Pieces Of Lenin

Several statues of Lenin rest among rubble in Kramatorsk.

Broken and damaged Soviet-era statues are collected in Kharkiv.

A headless Lenin stands in Shabo, spray-painted with the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

The head of a Lenin monument in storage at the National Historical Museum in Dnipropetrovsk

The nose from the Lenin statue that stood in Kharkiv’s Freedom Square was included in the 2015 PinchukArtCentre’s exhibit called Let’s Take Lenin’s Head Back Together! by artist Yevgeniya Belorusets.

In Odesa, locals dressed up a Lenin statue as Star Wars villain Darth Vader.

Two Lenin statues sit in storage at the National Art Museum in Kyiv. 

The head of a Lenin monument rests on a pedestal at the Museum of Soviet Occupation in Kyiv.