Lenin statue to be unveiled in Germany despite legal fight
by Agence France-Presse from on (#54TCW)
Gelsenkirchen bucks global trends with new monument as other cities confront relics of colonial past
While a global row rages over the controversial pasts of historical figures immortalised as statues, on Saturday a divisive new monument to the former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin will be unveiled in Germany.
More than 30 years after the communist experiment on German soil that followed the second world war ended, the tiny Marxist-Leninist party of Germany (MLPD) will install Lenin's likeness in the western city of Gelsenkirchen.
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