You just don't see that many statues of Lenin any more. I photographed this one here in Hanoi, Vietnam.
According to Wikipedia, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, author, lawyer, economic theorist, political philosopher, creator of the Soviet Communist Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution, and founder of the USSR.
As head of the Bolsheviks, he led the Red Army to victory in the Russian Civil War, before establishing the world's first officially socialist state. As a theorist, his extensive theoretical and philosophical contributions to Marxism produced Leninism. He survived two assassination attempts, worked 14 to 16 hours a day, and his collected writings fill 45 volumes of approximately 650 pages each.
Wikipedia did not mention that Lenin was such a huge fan of skateboarding.
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