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
Während der letzten Exil-Monate vor seiner Rückkehr nach Russland, wo Lenin die Oktoberrevolution anführte, wohnte er in Zürich. Hier verbrachte er die meiste Zeit in den Bibliotheken und versammelte sich regelmäßig mit anderen im Exil lebenden Russen. Am Wochenende soll er gerne mit seiner Frau, Nadeschda Krupskaja, Ausflüge zum Zürichberg unternommen haben. In dieser Zeit verfasste er das Werk „Der Imperialismus als höchstes Stadium des Kapitalismus“, eine von seinen wichtigsten Schriften. 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
Zwischen Luckenwalde und Jüterbog liegt das Naturschutzgebiet Forst Zinna-Jüterbog-Kellberg, in dem eine der dunkelsten Seiten der Geschichte der Gruppe der Sowjetischen Streitkräfte in Deutschland geschrieben wurde. Im Herzen dieser Waldung hatte die deutsche Armee im 19. Jahrhundert ein Militärübungsgelände errichtet, das in den 1930er Jahren von der Wehrmacht erweitert und nach dem II. Weltkrieg von den Rotarmisten übernommen wurde. Unter anderem diente die Anlage als Fahrschule für Kettenfahrzeuge. Weiterlesen
Between Luckenwalde and Jüterbog we find the nature reserve of Forst Zinna-Jüterbog-Kellberg, where one of the darkest pages in the history of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany was written. Back in the 19th century, the German army built a military training area, which was expanded by the Wehrmacht during World War II and taken over by the Red Army after the Nazi’s capitulation. This military area included a driving school for tanks. Weiterlesen
On April 29th 2016 the exhibition „Unveiled – Berlin and its monuments” was solemnly inaugurated at Zitadelle Spandau. Its main exhibit is a two-meter large head of Lenin with a weight of 3,5 tonnes. It is made of red granite and used to be part of East Germany’s biggest Lenin-monument. After the reunification, the statue was banished from Berlin, dismantled and buried in a forest nearby. This head was especially dug up for this exhibition and attracted a lot of popular and media attention. The explanation for this high interest was not only the figure of Lenin itself, but especially the amazing history of this monument, which could serve as the script for a Hollywood-movie. Weiterlesen
During the period of the German Democratic Republic, the former Soviet Embassy in Berlin erected two Lenin-monuments in its premises: a white Lenin-bust in the front garden of the embassy and a copper relief on the exterior wall of the swimming bath, located behind the main building. After the GDR’s collapse, the two monuments had different destinies. Weiterlesen
In June 1990 the city of Chemnitz, which had been renamed to Karl-Marx-Stadt in the 50s, got back its former name. Nevertheless, Karl Marx is still nowadays one of the biggest icons in the city’s landscape, especially because of the 7,10 meter high bust standing in front of a giant panel where translations into different languages of the famous sentence from the Communist Manifest: “Workers of the world, unite!” are placed. It is the second biggest bust in the world, only surpassed by the sculpture of Lenin’s head in the Russian city of Ulan-Ude. Besides this, in Chemnitz there are still some other Socialist monuments to see: Walking through the streets, one can meet Engels, Thälmann, German antifascist soldiers, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, and also Lenin. Weiterlesen
Besides the window pane in the Faculty of Law, in the Humboldt University we can still find another representation of Lenin. It is part of the triptych of leaded windows made by the Socialist artist Walter Womacka in 1962 placed at the central university building in Dorotheenstraße. Weiterlesen
To imagine Lenin participating in some kind of competition or duel against Schiller sounds like one of the weird ideas of the British comedy group Monty Python, which are known for their absurd sketches, such as the one showing a football match between German and Greek philosophers. But as implausible as it may shine: In a small town in Thüringen Schiller and Lenin actually had to compete for a place on a little square. Weiterlesen
LENIN IS STILL AROUND 