Tens of thousands of Lenin statues were erected across the Soviet Union and in allied Communist countries.
Almost every village had one.
His face adorned postage stamps, crockery, posters, and the front pages of Soviet newspapers.
Libraries, streets, farms, museums, towns, and whole regions were named after him.
Statues of Lenin were defaced, decapitated and toppled, and memorials adoring the controversial figure were destroyed.
Its a giant memorial, so big that for see it you have be airborne.
The letters are 82 meters tall and stretches for 300 meters.
Although everyone in Tyukalinsk knows about it, nobody is sure when the trees were planted.
Among other things, there was an idea that communism would be eternal.
Photo: Slava Stepanov
Living memorial to totalitarianism is not unique to the Soviet Union.
Across the mountainside, DVX is spelled out with an estimated 20 thousand trees.
The trees were cut down in 2000.
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