In 2016, the journalists Niels Ackermann and Sebastien Gobert began a trip that would take them across Ukraine, looking for lost or destroyed or repurposed Lenin statues.
One lead led to another, as the pair tracked down statues (or parts thereof) across the country. “A Svoboda activist has got Lenin’s hand,” one contact tells them. “Of course, it would be nice to find the body, too,” the journalists muse.
Lenin Palace, House of Culture (Dnipro, photographed July 2016)
Storage of the Dnipro National History Museum (photographed November 2015)
Kamianske, photographed July 2016
All images from Looking for Lenin, 2017, Fuel Design & Publishing.
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