KYIV – Andriy Turchenko was a boy of 7 or 8 when his father brought him to the statue of Vladimir Lenin on Kyiv’s Taras Shevchenko Boulevard in the 1990s, a few years after the Soviet collapse, to teach him about the Bolshevik leader’s legacy. “He was feeling nostalgic,” Mr. Turchenko recalls. This week, Mr....
Ukrainians ‘inhabit’ Lenin’s shadow on site of toppled statue in Kyiv
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