Andriy Turchenko was a boy of seven or eight when his father brought him to the statue of Vladimir Lenin on Kyiv's Taras Shevchenko Boulevard in the 1990s, a few years after the Soviet collapse, to teach him about the Bolshevik leader's legacy. "He was feeling nostalgic," Turchenko recalls. This week, Turchenko returned with his own son, 5-year-old Oleksandr, for an updated history lesson - and a selfie on the spot where Lenin long stood. The statue is gone, pulled down by protesters during Ukraine's Euromaidan revolution in 2013, and the plinth it occupied for 67 years is empty.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Ukrainians ‘inhabit’ Lenin’s shadow on site of toppled statue
A new art installation \"Inhabiting Shadows\" is set up at the place of toppled Lenin monument in Kyiv.
