Lenin

A man touches the statue of <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO00000025" title="Russia" href="/topic/intl/russia-PLGEO00000025.topic">Soviet Union's</a> founding father Vladimir Lenin in the Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia. Two decades after the Soviet collapse -- when hunger strikers pushed for the removal of all propaganda statues, red stars and hammer-and-sickle symbols from <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO00000028" title="Bulgaria" href="/topic/intl/bulgaria-PLGEO00000028.topic">Bulgaria's</a> squares and public buildings -- authorities resurrected them in the country's first ever Museum of Socialist Art.
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( Getty Images / September 20, 2011 )

A man touches the statue of Soviet Union's founding father Vladimir Lenin in the Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia. Two decades after the Soviet collapse -- when hunger strikers pushed for the removal of all propaganda statues, red stars and hammer-and-sickle symbols from Bulgaria's squares and public buildings -- authorities resurrected them in the country's first ever Museum of Socialist Art.

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