During my investigation about German Lenin-monuments, the name of Sassnitz often appeared in different documents and lists. In April of 1917 Lenin had spent a night in this East-German harbour-city, before taking a boat to Sweden in order to continue his trip to Russia. On the occasion of this historical episode, a memorial stone, a bust and a small museum in honour of Lenin were erected in Sassnitz during the 60s and 70s. Weiterlesen
The story about how the biggest German Lenin-bust ended up in the GDR-museum of Pirna (Saxony) more than three decades after the reunification is another of the surprising chronicles of Lenin-monuments in Germany.
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The Soviet Officer’s House in Weimar was built in 1974 for the higher commanders of the 8th Guards Unit. It was used as a cultural center, meeting place and restaurant. Two monuments dedicated to Lenin were erected in this complex: a bust made of bronze and a stained light box. Weiterlesen
A statue, which is under monument protection, but disappears without a trace. An old and forgotten bust, which suddenly is standing at the entrance of the Volkspark. Lenin’s existence in Potsdam is a succession of mysterious incidents and even journalists, politicians and public authorities lose track of it. Weiterlesen
In April 2016 a bust of Lenin was erected only a few meters from the border between Germany and Poland. During World War II, this sculpture had been stolen by the German army in the Soviet Union and sent to Küstrin-Kietz, in order to be destroyed and reused as a raw material for the arms industry. But two workers of the scrapping facility decided to hide it, saving it from the imminent smelting. Weiterlesen
The abandoned military area of Wittstock has turned into a ghost town. Entire apartment buildings, schools, office-blocks and hangars are falling apart. In front of the former cultural center we find an image, which is rich in contrasts: Lenin is standing there with his typical statesmanlike pose, but he is mutilated and completely covered with lichen. It was not possible to get more information about this act of vandalism, but the view of this half-destroyed statue seems like an exemplary representation of the neglect of the East-German monumental landscape. Weiterlesen
Near the Saxon city of Riesa, where one of the last statues of Lenin is still standing in a public square, there is another, rather unknown sculpture of the Soviet revolutionary. It’s standing in the restricted area of the former military area of Zeithain, which is now open to public. Weiterlesen
It may sound bizarre, but in Frankfurt, the European financial center, one can find a monument dedicated to Lenin. In front of the private museum Explora there is a bust of Lenin, which was rescued from a scrap yard and tuned by the artist M. Charlamov, who added 3D-glasses to the sculpture and called it Anaglyphowitsch. Weiterlesen
During his last month of exile before travelling back to Russia, where he would lead the October Revolution, Lenin lived in Zürich. He spent most of his time in libraries, working on his political texts, or in cafés, where he often met other Russians living in exile. On the weekends, he liked to go with his wife, Nadeschda Krupskaja, to the Zürichberg, a green hill nearby. It was in that moment when Lenin wrote his essay “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism”, one of his most important works. Weiterlesen
LENIN IS STILL AROUND 
