KIEV (Reuters) - Exhaustive efforts to tear down Ukraine's largest remaining monument to Vladimir Lenin bore fruit on Thursday when workers prised the late Soviet leader's statue from its plinth in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhya.
Since a pro-Western uprising ousted a Russia-backed president in 2014, Ukraine has passed laws aimed at severing the former Soviet republic from its communist past - a move some have criticised as an attempt to erase history.
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