RT published June 21, 2020: FIRST Lenin statue unveiled in West Germany following legal battle. A small German party, Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD), has installed a monument to the first Soviet leader, Vladimir Lenin, in the western city of Gelsenkirchen. City authorities sought to block the initiative but ended up launching an online educational campaign.
BBC News, UK
written by Staff
Saturday June 20, 2020
A far-left party in Germany has erected a controversial statue of communist leader Vladimir Lenin.
The tiny Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) installed the statue in front of its headquarters in the western city of Gelsenkirchen.
City authorities had attempted to stop the statue being installed and launched an online hashtag saying there was "no place for Lenin".
But courts blocked their appeals and the unveiling went ahead on Saturday.
Lenin was a leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and led the country until his death in 1924, when he was succeeded by Josef Stalin. However, he has remained a symbol of communism rule across the world, both among supporters and those who remember the human rights abuses that took place under the USSR.
Germany itself was divided for decades between the West and the communist East, until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
In the debate surrounding the Gelsenkirchen statue, which was made in Czechoslovakia, as it was then known, in 1957, both sides drew parallels to the tearing down of monuments linked to slavery which has taken place in anti-racism protests across the world in recent weeks.
"We live in a time in which many countries of the world are reflecting on memorials," said mayor Frank Baranowski in one of a series of YouTube videos posted by the city council against the statue.
"It's hard to put up with the fact that a dictator from the 21st Century is being placed on a pedestal and a memorial is being made out of it. Unfortunately the courts have decided otherwise, we must accept that, but not without comment."
However, MLPD's chair, Gabi Fechtner, described the communist leader as "an ahead-of-his-time thinker of world-historical importance, an early fighter for freedom and democracy", according to the AFP news agency.
This a statue of Vladimir Lenin. #MARXIST Yeah, THAT Lenin.— ๐บ๐ธJamar J Williamsู (@JamarJWilliams) June 22, 2020
This is in Seattle, Washington. USA.
Notice that there's been no call or attempt to tag it or tear it down? Still think #BLMprotest #BlackLivesMatter is about helping black people? @UTT_US @GaetaSusan pic.twitter.com/APEsL2TJDr
๐ Who wants to tell her? ๐
Unbelievable she would defend Lenin.
Hi, pics of the Lenin statue in Seattle are being passed around among conservatives. A few quick notes:— Charlotte Clymer ๐ณ️๐ (@cmclymer) June 20, 2020
1. It's privately owned and situated on private property.
2. It is has, in fact, been frequently vandalized.
3. Lenin was not a slaveowner, you Confederate apologist fucks. pic.twitter.com/oXB7bTOZj0
1. Since when do criminals care about private property? If they wanted Lenin gone, he'd be gone— Billy Swagspeare 2020 (@bswagspeare) June 20, 2020
2. Thanks for confirming point 1, above
3. Lenin's ideas led to the mass murder of more human beings during the 20th Century than any disease. But he didn't own slaves, so he's cool.
I thought you commies don't believe in private property? ๐ง— Sydney Watson (@SydneyLWatson) June 20, 2020
My grandparents escaped Latvia to get away from that Soviet regime but sure since you know all about it— AJP (@Alex_John_7) June 20, 2020
Lenin enslaved an entire country and starved millions.— Erudite Donald (@Hi_IQ_Trump) June 20, 2020
#Lenin turned an entire nation into slaves and murdered the rest who refused to bend the knee...— Alexandra Marshall (@ellymelly) June 20, 2020
“Lenin was not a slaveowner”. I wonder did you ever heard about Gulags? https://t.co/mWCqzNjBh8 pic.twitter.com/NRBzp3LEYM— Marcin Makowski (@makowski_m) June 20, 2020
Lenin ordered to set up Gulags in the former Soviet Union where 18 million people have been forced to work and 1.6 million died in these concentration camps. pic.twitter.com/0dbHZVWYxJ— Iranian American (@IranLionness) June 20, 2020
I can tolerate a racist all day everyday. Your “superiority” complex is just a display of fear, insecurity, and inferiority— Hotep WithIt (@HotepWithit) June 21, 2020
A communist... whew child
These muhfuckas think they’re the best thing since sliced bread even tho their ideology has the highest body count
Don't let anybody convince you that it is racist to oppose Marxism.— Patriot J ๐ฅ (@sirhottest) June 22, 2020
Imagine still using the "real communism has never been done yet" argument as an adult. https://t.co/XSE4w58MRr— neontaster (@neontaster) June 20, 2020
— TheGreatCuthruyu (@cuthruyu) June 20, 2020
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