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I myself am a historian by education but I never thought that I will be in the center of history
that I will be creating it together with the people
I'm here because I love Ukraine and
I want it to finally break away from captivity
Actually, we came to look at Lenin, they say he's lying
in the Mausoleum or maybe somewhere here, but, alas, he's not seen anymore.
There is a verse by Vasyl' Stus where he blames neither Lenin nor Stalin but says:
My dear people, will you find salvation From your death cry and heavy dropping tears
From executed and tormented and slaughtered ones In all those concentration camps.
Lenin never bothered us at all
My whole inner self split in two. I'm a sculptor. Among all 1500 monuments erected throughout our country
and that is despite the fact that Lenin himself never visited Ukraine personally
this one was the only to participate at the international exhibition in Paris
o it was a piece of art and that is what I regret
I blame it on our authorities and all its predecessors during our independence
They lacked courage or whatever to create a museum of terror and transfer the monument to that place
It was an apparent symbol of terror and that is why communists cherished it so vividly
The next stage may be the prohibition of the communist ideology
but time will tell us, I don't know
My second part was immensely happy, because I'm Ukrainian
and this symbol is inacceptable to me in the center of my city, of my country.
Board your plane, pack everything you can take with you.
Goodbye, It's up to you: By whatever transport to Europe or Russia, just leave. The further, the better.