As Europe marks the 20th anniversary of the Soviet collapse, Bulgaria opens museum of socialist art

SOFIA (AP).- Giant statues of Soviet dictators Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin. Paintings of enthusiastic socialist laborers. A huge red star that graced Communist Party headquarters. As Europe marks the 20th anniversary of the Soviet collapse, this nation that’s still shaking off its troubled communist legacy is opening a museum dedicated to the totalitarian past. A debate’s raging on whether the museum romanticizes the Soviet era or teaches new generations about its horrors. Other former communist countries like the Czech Republic [...]

Vladimir Lenin Exhibit Returns to Ukraine After Two Decades

KIEV.- Moth-eaten socks and other clothes once worn by Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, have gone on exhibit in Ukraine’s capital for the first time since the former Soviet republic became independent almost two decades ago. The exhibition, timed to coincide with the 140th anniversary of Lenin’s birth on Thursday, was made possible under the country’s new Russia-friendly president. In Soviet times, dozens of museums were dedicated to the life of the charismatic founder of the [...]