In search of parts of Lenin

In the spring of 2015, the Ukrainian government adopted the laws on decommunization prohibiting symbols of the Soviet era. In accordance with the legislation, the Communist Government, which rumbles from 1917 to 1991, is condemned as a criminal regime. Throughout Ukraine, monuments to Vladimir Lenin were dismantled and dismantled for pieces. Photographer Niles Akkerman and journalist Sebastian Gober tracked the whereabouts of these "pieces" of Lenin. The search brought them to museums, art galleries and overgrown courts

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