Destruction of Lenin Statue in Cherkassy, Ukraine

[UDSS]

Lenin never wanted huge statues of himself. Those Stalinist made Lenin statues should never been put there. The real Lenin was not the Lenin of the propaganda.

He was no saint and no superman. He was a human, a revolutionary leader that never wanted to become the center of a cult of personalty. Joseph Stalin and Grigory Zinoview made the cult of Lenin.

I would remove those statues myself. We must learn from Lenin, not build statues or sing about him in ''revolutionary songs''

[iEatBoneDust]

YEAH baby! SOCIALISM HAS DESTROYED EUROPE!!! FUCK LENIN and his festering minions!

[Alexua31]

Oyy, is goooood))))

[vaso442]

stalis was idiot , burn satan !!!! kill commies !!

[fistfulofknowledge]

Lenin would be turning in his little glass coffin if he could see this.

[UDSS]

@fistfulofknowledge

No he would not oppose it. Lenin never wanted huge statues of himself. When Bolshevik leaders sang about Lenin during his 50th birthday, he hated it. Lenin did not liked it when people hailed him as ''great Lenin''. He hated the cult of personality just like Karl Marx. Stalin build on the cult of Lenin to justify the Stalinist dictatorship. No, Lenin would not hate to see that statue fall, it symbolizes a fake Lenin. The Lenin the stalinists showed the world.

[fistfulofknowledge]

@UDSS I ment it as implying he would hate the downfall of the ideology he dedicated his life to fighting for. Still there's not a great deal different between both Lenin and his succesor. Both men were modest workaholics, neither being one for the rallies and speeches made under fascist regimes. Both were murderers who wanted to create a phony state religion. Marx may have been a great sociologist and made many great points, but his proposals for a new society were few and far between.

[Bosirant]

These fanatical Communists are no better than Nazis.

[Bosirant]

Good!

[TheVortal]

Смерть комунізму та всім виродкам які його підримують!!! Слава Україні!!!

[meronmotors]

My lovely country america is becoming socialist. Socialism and america do not mix at all. This is going to change america to something very different. Something I wish not to be part of. God Bless america. A democratic country. Freedom of speech freedom of religion. Where a honest man works for an honest wage, We dont need people who wait for their government checks to show up and food stamps. That is un-american in every way. We want good immigrant not illiterates and leeches

[kosiak10851]

@meronmotors long live Lenin. Socialism is just a way to stop opression from oligarchs and bankers

[meronmotors]

@kosiak10851 socialism has just aloud opression from oligarchs and bankers in another way. In a more effective way then ever seen before. In the name of the "state" for the "workers"

[casperado666]

Death to communist Gods!!

[declaration963]

Lenin fate was just like USSR fate..... crumble and destroy without trace.... if US capitalist wasn't learn from this fact, they will collapse too.

[RussiaTrue]

Most of you victim anti soviet propaganda!...

I sure most of you never even been and live and USSR and absolutly not understand where lie and where truth.

And you blindly belive your false mass media, when they show you, what they WANT to show to masses.

[frankzese]

he helped them get back their country, they helped him get down his statue

[casperado666]

@frankzese who did he help?

[UnbekannteSoldat]

This is fantastic, the allegory of the death of socialism, Very Thank's.

[GrayRaBii]

SLAVA UKRAINI!!!

[Oxygenich]

The tyrant of Ukraine is dead

[TheLeivo]

What people don't realise is that without Lenin, the Ukraine, or countries like Kazakhstan or turkmenistan wouldn't exist. He made these republics for those people

[eviltreemonster]

Fuck Communism.

[MiddletownDreamz]

In western Ukraine all statues to Lenin went down back in 1991 when independence was proclaimed.

[ScavangePack]

stalin wasnt lenins fault poor lenin

[DavBlc7]

@ScavangePack What about the last Tsar ? After all, Lenin ordered the murder of the last royal family - not only killing the Tsar and Tsarina but also their young children too. Murderer of the children.

God Save the Souls of the Tsar Nicholas II and King George V - Royal cousins!

[MrCherkass]

@DavBlc7 При Николае 2 в кровавое воскресенье войска расстреляли рабочих, которые вышли на мирную демонстрацию. Быдло. которое сносит памятники Великому Ленину сдохнет, а память о великой стране останется.

[bapyou]

Elites of the world unite!

You have nothing to lose but your workforce!

[geoblue6]

It makes me so happy to see the destruction of lenin's statues..may the future wip him away forever!

GOD BLESS THE UKRAIN!!!

[Braunschweider]

Communists killed far more people than the fascists, OK fascists HAVE killed jews and gypsies, but not 100 Million, not 10 Million, maybe 5 Million, 7 tops...Russians have left deserters of war in the Siberia and have used more than Auschwitz and all the other camps...

[TheUSSRsoviet]

@Braunschweider There has been no real communist country yet, they have all been a military dictatorship with socialism in it. But true communism is anti-war

[Schlauwiesau1]

If I see this old KGB-Pigs crying I just think:

Fanja Kaplan do it again ! ! !

[DRVMI]

Як бальзам на душу. Дивився б на це роками)))

[Ez1917]

makes me wanna cry ...

the destruction of an ideal is always sad to see ...

[NasyTrey]

Oh! Our saver,our teacher was destroed

[rashzitzandpimple]

Hooray! Burn in hell, Volodya.

[anakore2]

Glory to comrade Lenin!!

Ukrania is killing itself.

[halfnapil]

@anakore2 Seek help!

[comotose762]

Good bye evil empire, hello freedom!

[AlucardZero]

Born and raised in this city. My grandma's apt. is visible in the pictures haha

[AlucardZero]

used to walk here everyday. Came to visit last year and bam it was gone and it's just a square now...

[Sanya2792]

Кому он мишал ?)Раньше хоть было где туристам сфоткаться.А щя пустое место.

[NightmariXPropheC]

I cried. Twas a tragedy.

[SpySmashr]

good work!

[ugur2465]

faşist köpekler

[VinceP1974]

Oh People of Marx... People of Beloved Memory of Lenin and other human monsters..

Take comfort that the youth in American universities held a 60 day period of mourning when the statue was ripped to the ground.

[JoeyRamonerulz]

@VinceP1974 "People of Marx"? Anyways, the so-called "People of Marx" are anything but human monsters. You can take my word for it, I promise it's true!

[crislsd]

They belive in the poison of american propaganda

[ShamanMcLamie]

@crislsd I think American propaganda is far more preferable than 10 million dead under Soviet rule. Although I personally don't think that was Lenin's fault.

[meronmotors]

@crislsd our propaganda was not even aloud in the ussr and you guys removed the socialism so dont blame us thats your doing. Are propaganda only came through after the collapse.

[iEatBoneDust]

@crislsd Excuse me? And what has Socialism done GOOD for the INDIGENOUS European and Slavic nations?? Socialism has only done good for the invaders from third-world countries!

[Nitocolus]

Lenin was a glorious leader and only a fool blinded by ignorance and hate would deny that

[CAPSLOCKISWIN]

WTF, what did Lenin ever do to Ukraine, you assholes, Lenin was a great man that should never be forgotten, this video is disgraceful

[ilieklolcatz]

@CAPSLOCKISWIN What did Lenin do to Ukraine? How about you learn from a little history. That's exactly what these Ukrainians did. We've had socialism. We've tried it. And unlike hypocrite Utopian leftists who live in prosperous capitalist contries, we know what this evil ideology leads to. It's okay. In time, your country, the United States, might have to learn the same lesson we did.

[JoeyRamonerulz]

@ilieklolcatz Evil ideology? Socialism? Hah. I agree that the fascist Soviet Union was evil, though.

[ilieklolcatz]

@JoeyRamonerulz Of course, every time a socialist experiment fails (which is always at the national level), it is deemed "fascism" by leftists like you. I know your type -- an idealist fool, or as Lenin (supposedly) used to call you, "useful idiots of the West."

[JoeyRamonerulz]

@ilieklolcatz Socialist experiment? Would you kindly tell me what made the Soviet Union socialist? Their imperielism? Their anti-freedom? Their lack of freedom of speech? The concentration camps? Their non-existing equal rights? The lack of democracy? I believe that what Marx described can work. Not just on paper. But idiots like Lenin, Staln, Mao, Pol Pot etc. etc. does evil things "in the name of scialism" it really does piss me off. There was never anything socialist about the Soviet Union.

[ilieklolcatz]

@JoeyRamonerulz What made SU socialist was the government's ownership of the means of production. Statism, imperialism, hatred of basic human freedoms, oppression of the general citizenry all were direct results of that. I find it peculiar that you would call Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot idiots. They were not evil or idiots, they truly believed that socialism was achievable and wanted to attain it -- they thought they were doing good. In either case, your argument is simply a No True Scotsman.

[halfnapil]

@ilieklolcatz You too seek for help, maybe is not too late.

[ilieklolcatz]

@halfnapil Huh...

[halfnapil]

@ilieklolcatz Last chance to see the benefits of that system is Cuba. Enjoy.

[ilieklolcatz]

@halfnapil I can't tell if you're being a sarcastic rightist or an angry leftist. Please elaborate.

[meronmotors]

@ilieklolcatz We are learning this very hard lesson. anyone who knows anything about the ussr would not allow socialism into america. However americans today are becomeing lazy and want the goverment to do everything for them. They dont realize that freedom is removed when goverments control your everyday life. They will soon learn.

[Texfield91]

@ilieklolcatz I hope my fellow Americans take your words with wisdom

[gneisenau321]

@ilieklolcatz

Imperialist, Fascist, Capitalist, and Socialist governments are not really any different actually. You all likewise kill/beat up/arrest anyone you don't disagree with. There is always corruption in your systems. And sure enough the government system always gets the best benefits. When humans get the power to rule over a large group of people and play God, shit happens.

[ZhivaTheMage]

@CAPSLOCKISWIN

War, plunder, "prodrazverstka"-induced famine, internment camps. We will never forget what he did to us.

[SgtdawnFTW9000]

Lenin will forever be remembered. Not for what he did wrong but for what he did right.

[fderzinski]

as you can see there is no people only police protecting the destruction. Where is the people that "doesn't like" communism...????? All was MADE BY USA!!! fixed news and fixed protestors at 1989-91

[hax0rman1337]

PULL IT DOWN

[FightMarxism]

It should be left there on the ground in disgrace.

[FillTheirVoid]

lol their god fell down and can't get up.

[nickydene]

- Did it change the city face?

- Nope. It showed to what extend we are absend minded.

Poor we are, my brethren Ukrainians

Destroy everything to make a new world?

[cosak23]

why can they not do that to the chort in Kiev

[inlumine]

Sic semper tyrannis! No respect for the architect of 70 years of bloody oppression!

[gardarart]

Destroy this monsters,Yeah!

[Lazerus53]

da, da , da, ochen harashow robota

[vokinnvlad]

Im feel sorry for those poor minds its shame

[jowns0]

good job Ukraine!

[camnet31]

galko

[KenMacMillan]

0:40 American Democrats come out to protest.

[monopita]

I saw a little explosion there, were they really trying to move it safely?

anyways, I am against this kind of act, as much as I hate communism. It's a good reminder, and it is history.

[Cthonicodebreaker]

What a waste of a wonderful scupture of a great man. The barbaric act speaks for itself - these people must be threatened by Lenin, they must support the selfish self-centred parasites who misuse their power. They must lack any consideration for others, for history, for the future. Lenin's enemies might destroy his sculptures, but they will never erase the love and admiration he inspires in those who draw strength and inpiration from his example.

[axe863]

I hope the guards enjoy Lenin as much as you do ;) ;) ;)

[axe863]

Communists killed 10s of millions of people in your country and yet you take it deep for them?

[AfroNinja101SK]

communism didn't kill people, Stalin did... dumbass, go learn what communism is.

[axe863]

I used to be a communist. Communism is an unattainable state. In the attempt & irrationality 100 million have already died.

[axe863]

Youre missing a long list of dictators.

[AfroNinja101SK]

lol really now?

[axe863]

Yes really name instances... how a perfectly competitive firm can kill anyone

[keymaker2112]

An impossiblity? Well, that's a lie, it's an impossiblity as long as people have freewill, a vested self-interest, or the lack of a hive mind.

[OEddiO]

Capitalists killed billions of people in different countries for money and profits, communists killed millions of capitalists... Capitalists and people like you, who believe in their lies deserve it, the russians and all the soviet folks have to kiss the statues of Lenin for creating a modern country, which was destroyed by Liberal morrons like gorbachev and robbed out by republicans and capitalists like you.

[axe863]

Under capitalism, there exists limited govt. Limited govt does not = imperialism. It would not have the power to force its citizens to fund such things. Are you really that dumb to realize that a purely free market is just the aggregation of peoples expectation and nothing else. Lenin made this idiotic mistake back in the day... but people like you still perpetuate it.

[axe863]

How did the free market kill billions? I would love to see you explain this. I would love to see how an abstract entity could kill anyone.

[blargh12]

1st it's not a work of art (unless you call every attempt on artistic creation is a work of art by the definition). It's a generic statue. 2nd - 100s of millions of people? What catastrophe? 3rd - He was not a great man. He was influencial yes, but he killed a lot of people (not as many as stalin obviously). Even if somebody destroyed a statue of Shevchenko or say St. Mary if you're Christian, you still don't deserve pain. You deserve a fine and a reasonable imprisonment time. - With love, - Me.

[blargh12]

hahaha you're awesome. You make me laugh. This is not treason (besides death wouldn't be right). Also, Ukraine's laws do are not subordinate to lenin. So this should not be punishable at all. It should be spread. Every monument should be taken down and peed on haha oooh noooo I will receive a death sentence!!! You are a sick little bastard who only thinks communist like - killing people for a statue. Yep people, that's the face of communist regime; you just witnessed it yourself.

[blargh12]

HAHAHA WORK OF ART. YOU GOT ME THERE. Take some art classes village boy.

[blargh12]

haha death sentence: wow I see lenin supporters are indeed lenin supporters death sentence, lol very lenin like.

[majorgeeek]

free and independent Ukraine is slowly recovering from the dark and destructive years of Russian and Soviet occupation. Please help Ukraine rebuild its former culture, language and religion following the downfall of evil Commie empire. All statues of Lenin should be removed and shipped back to Moscow since they are a reminder of past atrocities of the soviet to many Ukrainians .....cheers

[ProtoOmegaXenosaga]

Pfff staling should have sued for peace and given the Nazi's ukrane as a part of the deal, who needs those dam trators to the soviet motherland.

[VictorLepanto]

Beautiful! A Lenin statue is such an ugly thing. He is such a hideous man! Such improvements of his likeness is very much needed. There is no crime that Stalin committed that Lenin did not commit on a smaller scale. Everything that Stalin needed commit his crimes was invented by Lenin & Trotsky. The secret police were called the Cheka then. The concentration camps already existed under Lenin. Commisars as party enforcers. Lenin's crimes were only limited by the then weakness of the gov't.

[haifad]

You do realised that Stalin Liquidated the Old Bolsheviks during the purge?, if anything Stalin wasn't fueled by Lenin and Trotsky, Both Lenin and Trotsky Condemned Stalin and didn't want him to be in power to begin with. Stalin was not a socialist, he just Fathered Stalinism, get your facts right.

[UDSS]

All those Lenin statues were made by the Stalinist government of the USSR. Lenin was not like Stalin and never wanted a cult around him. I believe as a Marxist that all those cult Lenin statues should be destroyed. Lenin was a man of the workers and he does not need statues.

So this destruction of a Lenin statue does not hurt me a bit.

[haifad]

Amen.

[NoGuff]

I think Obama is trying to get pieces of that statue as cherished keepsakes.

Why can't Communists get together and move to some lowly nation and stop trying to change democratic free market nations into Communist ones? Maybe they can show us how great they are with what they do with their new home.

[thomaserossi]

The Russians need to kill the old communists. Get rid of them. They completely fucked up that country. Destroyed the people, culture, and history.

[Uberaoshi]

thomaserossi

the Bolsheviks raped mother Russia and her sisters(Ukraine-Georgia-Estoni­a-Latvia-Lithuania etc.).

[Nefus2]

I don´t know what to think, Lenin and communism suck, but still is a part of history.

And destroy all things made by former tyrants would not make sense.

[FreedomFighterNL]

I agree

[FreedomFighterNL]

Shame was a nice statue

[dlix]

They should "transport" this Lenin statue from the middle of Seattle as well. I spit on that statue every time I see it.

[HokiesAndDawgs]

I'm amazed someone hasn't tried to break it.

[Nefus2]

A lenin statue in usa? WTF? That makes no sense.

[sarzamineiran]

Truly sad...idiots tearing down history.

Lenin, one of the greatest minds, and most influential people of the century doesn't deserve that, even if he wasn't perfect.

[blargh12]

hahaha you poor ignorant fool. Mmmm it feels good urinating on that broken Lenin statue in the morning.

[TruthTaste]

This is disgusting, this was a piece of history, this would be like destroying Hitler's artwork, just because he was a bad man does not mean we should destroy a part of history.

[ihateuserids]

Now step into the shoes of these people and the suffering they endured because of this man. The 7 million Ukrainian who perished would maybe not appreciate a monument to his greatness, nor will those who survivied to remember them.

One man's historical monument is another man's reminder of suffering and repression and this is maybe an important step towards recovery.

[haifad]

Umm.. Lenin had little to do of Isolating Ukraine, if i am not wrong, its all Stalin's idea to Suck Ukraine dry.

[gardarart]

Stalin & Lenin - two bloody maneaters.

[abckh85]

@ihateuserids Вы о чем говорите? Такие заявление модет делать только тот человек, который знает про Россию/Украину, только по фильму "РЭМБО". Не позоритесь, не пишите такие глупости. При чём тут Ленин?! Лучше про свой Вьетнам вспомните сколько американцев и вьетнамцев перемололи... И очень бессмысленно!

[ihateuserids]

@abckh85 My comment stands. For some people Lenin was a great man, to a great many (more?) he was a tyrant and a murderer. As i said "One man's historical monument is another man's reminder of suffering...". It means different things to different people.

[pUyOl544]

@ihateuserids DUde was Stalin the one who killed de Kulaks not Lenin read a HIstory book Lenin and Stalin were two human beings totally different even Lenin said that he was afraid of what Stalin would do if he come into power Lenin wanted Trotsky to be his successor... I know Lenin also tried to get rid of some people to make communism work but so did the Czar and he came and liberated a Nation therefore he should be seen as a Hero.

[axe863]

People starved to death. Parents had to eat their own children. You are heartless.

[TruthTaste]

Only animals would eat their children rather than starve to death. People STILL go without food to this day in that country, where is your heart sir?

[blargh12]

Nooo poor hitler's art!!!! we should feed it some food and give it a place to live. Besides, this is a monument, and there is nothing historically significant about it.

[TruthTaste]

Wow, quick history lesson, there is historical significance to every state-financed monument every created. Regardless if it was created by a democracy or a monarchy or any of the Godless varieties of state.

[texaswather]

My grandfather fled Latvia ahead of the Soviet takeover he was on the to be killed ASAP list I esteban Erik STipnieks would like to quote Texas Gov Rick Perry as the statue crumbles "Adios mofo!"

[sfsapp]

And the fools in the US just celebrated

Earth Day, aka Lenin's birthday. Coincidence? I don't think so. Hope & Change.

[IlyZor]

Idiots.

[MiddletownDreamz]

Bravo Pora khoch na 18 rokiv piznishe ale na reshti zvalyly chervonoho diavola. YPA. Slava Ukraini.

[MiddletownDreamz]

Bravo. This should have taken place 16 years ago in 1991 when the USSR fell apart. Back then it was only Western Ukraine that rid itself of Lenin monuments. Finally it has spread to Eastern Ukraine where many still stand and have to be dismantled.

[seafury]

Hussein, Lenin... and hopefully one day, Kim Il-Sung.

[ths0002]

A beautiful sight.

[SeppDietrich555]

Excellent footage... that's an example to be followed throughout the former Eastern Block and former soviet republics.

[SUSPENDEDKUFFAR]

I would have thought a bunch of scorpions and rats would fall out of him like a big sick piñata.

[nilesmc]

Love it!!!

It's too bad socialism is alive and well in the good old US of A.

Engles&Marx' 10 planks are opperating in America today.

[MiddletownDreamz]

Yes both Bush and Obama are implementing the ten planks of the communist manifesto. Still many Americans are armed to the teeth and there may yet be a civil war in t his country to restore Consittuional Republican government.

[darkshadyfigure]

Yes, but if that war happens the Republicans will be crushed under the bootheel of revolution.

[shuggy1991]

USA is exact opposite of communism my friend when the world started to hate the USA they made them out to be a nation turning into a Communist state when in a matter of fact they are turning even more Capitalistic. They don't even have a welfare state.

[nilesmc]

from None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen (1972): FDR once said "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."

You should look into:

*who recommended B.Clinton for his Rhodes Scholarship (Dr. Carroll Quigley)

*who Pres. Clinton thanked in one of his State of the Union addresses (Dr. Carroll Quigley)

*who is Dr. Quigley (professor @ the Foriegn Service School, Georgetown Univ./author of Tragedy & Hope)

[nilesmc]

"I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about (them) we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity & to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto w. it so he can see what's happening to him."

--T.Colman Andrews

Commissioner of Internal Revenue (USA)

May 25,1956 in U.S.News&World Report magazine