Gallery: When a Lenin Statue Is Decapitated, Where Does the Head Go?
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A decapitated Lenin statue in Chabo.
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A statue head sits in storage at the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum. The museum currently lacks the resources to exhibit it.
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Lenin statues and Soviet busts owned by a private collector in Kharkhiv.
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A bust sits on the floor beside a slot machine in a Kharkhiv storage building. It's part of a private collection.
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Artist Alexander Milov transformed this Lenin statue into Darth Vader outside an Odessa factory.
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This Lenin statue used to stand at the center of the former Lenin Museum, now a convention center. It now sits in a box in the basement.
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A Lenin statue lies face-down in the grass in Slavyansk.
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Soviet busts in a private collection in Kharkhiv.
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A Lenin statue in a glazier shop in Kharkiv. The owner collects Lenin heads, busts and monuments.
