Comment Re:Lenina? (Score 1) 280
Last year I bicycled across Russia.
My experience is many Russian cities still have a Lenina street. A Lenin statue in the main square is also still common. In Ulan-Ude is the world's largest Lenin head (a google image search shows several examples). When we cycled through Krasnoyarsk, someone had fun and had papered over one of the "Lenina" signs to make it "Putina".
The year before I bicycled through Ukraine and then via Kursk, Tambov, Penza to Samara. In Western Ukraine there were not (no longer) Lenin statues. However, it was interesting as we got close to Kiev and then beyond suddenly Ukrainian towns had their Lenin statues and Lenin streets.
