Ukrainians ‘inhabit’ Lenin’s shadow on site of toppled statue in Kyiv

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. … Continue reading Ukrainians ‘inhabit’ Lenin’s shadow on site of toppled statue in Kyiv