Leninopad: catalogue of pulled down of Lenins. (v @obk and @maxseddon). Also massive database of global Lenins. http://t.co/XPqar2aiRY
— Roland Oliphant (@RolandOliphant) September 28, 2014
The moment Lenin fell in #Kharkiv, #Ukraine tonight https://t.co/u1egD3ILss
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) September 28, 2014
As far as I can remember, he actually said "there are weeks where decades happen," but I guess the sentiment is clear:
Lenin: "There are decades where nothing happens and there are days where decades happen" MT @ChristopherJM: #Kharkiv pic.twitter.com/cLl4pSRooO"
— Sławomir Dębski (@SlawomirDebski) September 28, 2014
In my 1980s Soviet childhood Lenin was a joke - the Morkovkin (carrot man). The destruction of his statues makes him a potent idol again.
— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) September 28, 2014
The Lenin statue torn down in #Kharkiv was biggest in Ukraine at 20m. Police asked protestors not to do it, but yeah http://t.co/tTyCkQvyPk
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) September 28, 2014
Report from the "Orwellian" rally in Moscow to support eastern Ukraine rebels in response to last week's peace march http://t.co/qTqayz2CMO
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) September 28, 2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has issued this rough footage of the moment the Lenin statue came down in Kharkiv. The actual toppling takes place around the 2:15 mark (natural sound, no subtitles):
We are now closing our live blog on what has ended up being a rather eventful day in Kharkiv. We'll be back tomorrow with all the reaction to the symbolically significant toppling of a Lenin statue in Ukraine's second-largest city. In the meantime, you can keep up with all our ongoing Ukraine coverage here.
Good morning. We are resuming our live blogging of the Ukraine crisis for Monday, September 29, 2014.