Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine

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Clockwise from top left:

• A falling Lenin monument in Khmelnytskyi
• Statue of Lenin toppled near Stanytsia Luhanska
• The Lenin monument in Kyiv on 9 December 2013
• The statue of Lenin in Kharkiv on 29 September 2014

The demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine started during the fall of the Soviet Union and continued to a small extent throughout the 1990s, mostly in some western Ukrainian towns, though by 2013 most Lenin statues in Ukraine remained standing. During Euromaidan in 2013–2014, the destruction of statues of Lenin become a widespread phenomenon and became popularly known in Ukraine as Leninopad (Ukrainian: Ленінопад, Russian: Ленинопад), a pun literally translated as "Leninfall",^[1] with the coinage of "-пад" being akin to English words suffixed with "fall" as in "waterfall", "snowfall", etc.