This 16 foot high, 7 ton bronze sculpture of Vladimir Lenin took Bulgarian sculptor Emil Venkov 10 years to complete. It was installed in 1988 in Poprad, Slovakia, but quietly removed following Czechoslovakia's 1989 Velvet Revolution. The statue was saved from scrap by Lewis Carpenter, an English teacher, who purchased it for $13,000 and moved it to Washington for another $41,000. Mr. Carpenter died in a car accident in 1994 just a year after purchasing the statue. His family had it temporarily installed here in Fremont. The statue is for sale.
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representative of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament. " - V. I. Lenin "State and Revolution" 1917
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