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Statue of Lenin

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Lonely Planet review for Statue of Lenin

This is the latest and most controversial addition to Fremont’s collection of public art. This bronze, 16ft statue of former communist leader Vladimir Lenin weighs 7 tons. It was brought to the USA from Slovakia by an American, Lewis Carpenter, who found the statue in a scrap pile after the 1989 revolution. Carpenter spent a fortune to bring it over, sure that some crazy American would want to buy it. No one did, so here it stands biding its time in Fremont, allegedly still on sale for $250,000.

 

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