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In Bold Move, Ukraine Removes Soviet Symbols On Monument In Kyiv
Workers installed Ukraine's national trident on an iconic monument depicting the Motherland in Kyiv on Sunday, replacing old Soviet symbols in one of the most visible examples of breaking away from the past and Moscow's influence.
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Last Major Soviet Statues Come Down in Lithuanian Capital
Workers started dismantling monumental statues of soldiers, students, labourers and farmers in Lithuania's capital early on Monday, the last major Soviet artworks in a city now on the eastern frontier of the European Union and NATO.
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Polish City's New Statue Cuts a Urinating Lenin Down to Size
A Lenin statue has returned to a onetime model communist city in Poland but the monumental hero of Soviet days is now a small, lurid green man urinating from atop a black plinth.
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In Bold Move, Ukraine Removes Soviet Symbols On Monument In Kyiv
Workers installed Ukraine's national trident on an iconic monument depicting the Motherland in Kyiv on Sunday, replacing old Soviet symbols in one of the most visible examples of breaking away from the past and Moscow's influence.
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Last Major Soviet Statues Come Down in Lithuanian Capital
Workers started dismantling monumental statues of soldiers, students, labourers and farmers in Lithuania's capital early on Monday, the last major Soviet artworks in a city now on the eastern frontier of the European Union and NATO.
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Polish City's New Statue Cuts a Urinating Lenin Down to Size
A Lenin statue has returned to a onetime model communist city in Poland but the monumental hero of Soviet days is now a small, lurid green man urinating from atop a black plinth.
