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posted by janrinok on Sunday October 25 2015, @03:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the sometimes-I-think-we-are-all-mad dept.

In the next step of the Darth Vader movement in Ukraine, and coming just before the new Star Wars movie is out, a statue of Lenin was replaced with a statue of Darth Vader.

Ukrainians have transformed a statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin into one of Darth Vader in the city of Odessa. The absurd but highly-symbolic move comes just before the release of the latest "Star Wars" movie.

The founder of the former communist state, the Soviet Union, has long been despised by many Ukrainians. In April, the government passed a law, ordering all symbols of the Soviet era to be removed from the country.

"After the anti-communism law was adopted earlier this year, we had to decide what to do with the monument [of Lenin]," Oleksandr Milov, the sculptor of the new statue, told the AFP news agency. A 'real life' Vader, one of several in Ukraine, was on hand to check that the new statue was 'fully operational'

"Honestly, I did not like the idea of destroying it, so we decided on a more flexible solution," he said, adding that they were planning to install a Wi-fi router on the statue's head so that he can "communicate with the other Siths."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2015, @10:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2015, @10:50AM (#254612)

    When the media forgets, everybody forgets. Maybe it never happened because it was not reported by the media, or just reported and then forgotten.

    There was a massacre in Africa not long ago where about One Million people were murdered using garden tools. It was the biggest massacre in human history, ever. Where are the plaques and the memorials and the speeches and candle-lit marches to remember those who were lost. No, instead the gutter-media perpetuates the horrible crimes myths that never happened.

  • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday October 26 2015, @11:29AM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Monday October 26 2015, @11:29AM (#254618) Journal

    So what you're actually saying is, most people forgot (or never knew in the first place) but other people remembered.