Looking for Lenin

The eerie beauty of ukraine's Lenin statues, toppled in the name of decommunization In the process of decommunisation, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. The authors have hunted down and photographed these banned Soviet statues, revealing their inglorious fate. As Russia celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, Ukraine struggles to achieve complete decommunization. Perhaps the most dramatic demonstration of this process is the phenomenon of Leninopad (Lenin-fall)--the toppling of Lenin statues. In 2015 the Ukrainian parliament passed legislation banning these monuments as symbols of the obsolete Soviet regime. From an original population of 5500 in 1991, today not a single Lenin статуя remains standing in Ukraine. Photographer Niels Ackermann and journalist Sebastien Gobert, both based in Kyiv, have scoured the country in search of the remains of these toppled figures.