The Lenin statue in Osh. (Photo: Adam Harangozó/Wikimedia Commons) For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch above ...

Over the weekend, authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s second city, Osh, dismantled Central Asia’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin. Installed in 1975, the 75-foot statue’s removal, 34 years after ...

LONDON (AP) — Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central ...

Kyrgyzstan has taken down a huge statue of the revolutionary Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, which was thought to be the tallest in Central Asia. First erected when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet ...

Authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, have removed a 75-foot (23-meter) statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be the tallest in Central Asia. Erected in 1975 during the Soviet ...

Protesters rally in front of a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on a central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. Credit: AP/Nicolas Tanner ...