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Vladimir Lenin monument in Kiev became noticed as being directly involved in the Euromaidan events when it was violently toppled from its pedestal and crushed by angry mob on December 8, 2013. Later in its place, there was installed a golden toilet atop the pedestal as a symbol of state corruption, and then, the plinth has become a site of political artwork. Over a hundred Lenin statues and Soviet icons across Ukraine were destroyed from December 2013 to February 2014. ==Background== The larger than life-size (3.45 meters (feet )) Lenin monument was built by Soviet sculptor Sergey Merkurov from the same red Karelian stone as Lenin's Mausoleum. It was displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair and erected on Kiev's main Khreshchatyk Street (at the intersection of Shevchenko Boulevard, opposite the Bessarabsky Market) on 5 December 1946. According to the decree of the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, this monument of the Soviet Union and the associated Communist period should have been removed after Ukraine gained independence.〔(Про заходи у зв'язку з 75-ми роковинами Голодомору 1932 – 1933 років в Україні ) decree of the President of Ukraine № 250/2007〕 Nevertheless, due to the resistance of the Communist Party of Ukraine, whose members were elected to Verhovna Rada, the last Kiev monument to Lenin was left standing. Since the fall of Soviet rule, the monument survived numerous vandalizing attempts which lead to both increased policing of the area and frequent vigils by Communist activists. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vladimir Lenin monument, Kiev」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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