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Berlin considers digging up giant Lenin head for posterity
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Aug 01, 2005 05:16pm |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Aug 01, 2005 05:15pm |
| Description | BERLIN (AFP) - Berlin authorities are mulling whether to rescue the 3.5-tonne head from a statue of the late Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin from a public dump and grant it a prominent spot in a local museum.
A spokesman for the cultural authority in the city-state confirmed a report in Monday's Bild newspaper that Berlin officials now aimed to preserve the giant head, 14 years after it was consigned to history's dustheap.
A 19-meter-tall (62-foot-tall) statue of the Russian revolutionary was sawed from its pedestal in the Friedrichshain district of east Berlin in 1991, one year after German reunification, and buried near the Mueggelsee lake in nearby Koepenick. |
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