Ukrainians Don’t Respect Lenin

Ukraine is in the midst of an uprising, with citizens displaying their distaste for the days of communism. This photo of a protester decapitating a statue of Lenin will be iconic.

From CNN here:

Protesters knocked down a statue of Vladimir Lenin on Sunday as outrage mounted over the Ukrainian government’s push for closer ties with Russia.
A crowd of cheering protesters chanted “Good job” after the statue fell in Kiev’s Bessarabska Square.
Some pounded the monument with hammers, leaving pieces of the statue scattered on the ground. Only parts of the Soviet hero’s legs remained at the base. A man waving a Ukrainian flag stood atop the pedestal beside them.

Numerous statues of Lenin, one of the leaders of the 1917 Russian Revolution, have been removed from Kiev in recent years.
The Communist Party decried the attack on the statue Sunday.
“Destroying the Lenin monument in Kiev is not just an act of vandalism,” party leader Petro Symonenko said, according to a post on the party’s official website. “It is a sign that organizers of the protests are not for the European values, but rather for hate, fear and destruction of the state of Ukraine.”

The toppling of the statue on Sunday came as 100,000 protesters took to the streets of Kiev, according to police estimates, piling more pressure on Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych after he turned away from integration with Europe.
Kiev suspended talks with the European Union last month, angering many Ukrainians who say an EU agreement would have opened borders to trade and set the stage for modernization and inclusion.

People want to be free and live out from under the yoke of an oppressive government. And tyrants still want to drag the nation back into the ages of being a buffer state for Russia.