• 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. 
Yuri Gerasimov, Lenin, 1989. Photo copyright © 2019 Dianne L. Durante

Not a fan …

So here’s my favorite poem on the Communist dictator:

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings
For equal division of unequal earnings.

Evenezer Elliott

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  • Lenin is discussed in “Politics and Portrait Sculptures.”
  • On this sculpture, see Forgotten-NY.
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