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A statue of Vladimir Lenin is removed from the streets of the city of Kotka, Finland Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. The southeastern Finnish city of Kotka on Tuesday removed the last publicly displayed statue of Russian bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin in the Nordic country due to increasing pressure from residents in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine. (Sasu Makinen/Lehtikuva via AP)

Finnish city removes last publicly displayed statue of Lenin

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

Lenin-style Jan. 6 Committee Show Trial Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Lenin’s show trials and the Jan. 6 committee

By Newt Gingrich

In this photo taken on Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, part of the collection of Belarusian Nikolai Pankrat in his private museum in the town of Polatsk, 220 km (137 miles) north of Minsk, Belarus. Pankrat, 63, a retired military man, has assembled a collection more than 10,000 pieces of memorabilia commemorating the Bolshevik leader, including 500 busts, jammed into eye-straining rooms in his home. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Belarusian devotee amasses cache of Lenin memorabilia

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, Sergei Soloviev, who impersonates Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, waits for tourists to pose for photos in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. Visitors are forbidden to photograph Vladimir Lenin’s mummified body in the mausoleum on Red Square - but nearby, Sergei Soloviev is happy to offer an alternative. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Lenin impersonator ekes out a living on edge of Red Square

Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Lenin’ by Victor Sebestyen

By Joseph Goulden

Communists carry a flag depicting Vladimir Lenin, the Soviet Union founder, during a traditional May Day march in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, May 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) ** FILE **

Vladimir Lenin: Positives top 50 percent for first time in Russian poll

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Pope Francis waves from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's square to celebrate the Angelus noon prayer, at the Vatican, Sunday, June 29, 2014. Looking tired but relaxed, Pope Francis has led his first major public ceremony after a spate of canceled appointments for health problems. Francis appeared to hold up well Sunday during the more than 90-minute Mass in St. Peter's Basilica to honor Saints Peter and Paul. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope Francis: Communists are really closeted Christians

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

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KUHNER: Bury Lenin - without honors

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times

Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, lies embalmed in his tomb on Moscow's Red Square on Wednesday, April 16, 1997, six days before his 127th birthday on April 22. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

Russians mull burying Soviet leader Lenin

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Vladimir Lenin poses for a photo in 1922. (Associated Press) **FILE**

What killed Lenin? Poison called possibility

By Alex Dominguez - Associated Press

What killed Lenin? Stress didn’t help, poison eyed

By ALEX DOMINGUEZ - Associated Press

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KNIGHT: Earth Day co-founder written out of history

By Robert Knight - The Washington Times

Illustration: Unions by John Camejo for The Washington Times

PATTERSON: Labor unions and communism

By Matt Patterson - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Fair’ tax is unjust

The Washington Times

A construction crane is utilized outside the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. The construction company says 3,500 workers are still busy adding sophisticated electronic and hydraulic devices, redesigning the stage floor to ease the ballet dancers' pain and completing an underground stage located just a short distance from a metro station. (Associated Press)

Bolshoi Theater set to reopen in October

By Mansur Mirovalev - Associated Press

Russia’s Bolshoi to reopen after reconstruction

By MANSUR MIROVALEV - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Conspirator: Lenin in Exile’

By James Srodes - The Washington Times