- Date: 1989 (current installation).
- Sculptor: Yuri Gerasimov.
- Medium: Bronze
- Location: Previously on the roof of the Red Square apartment complex, 250 East Houston St.; now on the roof of 178 Norfolk St.
Not a fan …
So here’s my favorite poem on the Communist dictator:
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings
Evenezer Elliott
For equal division of unequal earnings.
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- Lenin is discussed in “Politics and Portrait Sculptures.”
- On this sculpture, see Forgotten-NY.
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