In this photo taken on Sunday, October 1, 2017, a statue of Vladimir Lenin stands in the central square in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island in Russia's Far East. The thousands of statues of Vladimir Lenin spread across the vast region bring to mind poet Vladimir Mayakovsky's ringing line of devotion: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live”. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./AP Photo)
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