Officials in Kyrgyzstan have taken down the country’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin—and replaced it with a flagpole.

Authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, have removed a 75-foot (23-meter) statue of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be ...

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 the central square. Then one morning, he disappeared. Residents of ...

Authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, have dismantled a 75-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin, Central Asia's "tallest Lenin monument", ...

In the city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan, by the decision of the local authorities, the monument to Vladimir Lenin was dismantled. It ...

In a statement, Osh City Hall called the move ... a different Lenin statue was relocated in the capital, Bishkek. The move came a week after Kyrgyzstan’s ally Russia unveiled a monument ...

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh ... was the case when a different Lenin statue was relocated in the capital, Bishkek. The move came a week after Kyrgyzstan’s ally ...

FILE - Local residents, Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, receive humanitarian aid in front of a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on a central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan ...