Karl Marx (1818-83) was a radical German economic theorist whose writings served as an inspiration for the 1917 communist takeover of Russia and the subsequent Soviet Union.

Putin’s mad push to revive Soviet Union with Stalin statues & Red Army cosplay ... Putin previously called the collapse of the USSR “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of ... getty images. 13.

The original statue, depicting Joseph Stalin with a wry smile, surrounded by admiring children and worshipful workers, was removed long before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia.