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Protests, fights mark opening ceremony of restored Vladimir Lenin monument
Nov 27, 2009 at 15:13
Several representatives of nationalist parties clashed with Communist Party members at the opening ceremony of the newly restored monument to Vladimir Lenin on Bessarabska Square in Kyiv on Nov. 27. Several dozen nationalists threw bottles with red-and-white paint at the monument, surrounded by some 700 Communist Party activists. Some of the bottles missed the target, however, and injured people in the crowd. The Communists paid for restoration of the monument to the leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The monument was vandalized on June 30 by five nationalists who broke off part of the statue's nose and left hand. Many Ukrainians want all monuments to the Soviet era and Lenin removed from Kyiv, but have encountered stiff opposition from Lenin diehards.