ETHIOPIA-STATUE OF LENIN-COMMUNISM

Ethiopian youths chant as they stand on the toppled statue, sculptured in a pure style of socialist realism, of Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 23 May 1991 in Addis Ababa, two days after the departure in exile of Ethiopian pro-communist strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam. Mengistu, who, after a coup in 1977, set out to create a socialist state in Ethiopia aligned with the communist bloc, was overthrown in 1991 by he Ethiopian People's Democratic Front. (Photo credit should read JEROME DELAY/AFP/GettyImages)
Ethiopian youths chant as they stand on the toppled statue, sculptured in a pure style of socialist realism, of Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 23 May 1991 in Addis Ababa, two days after the departure in exile of Ethiopian pro-communist strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam. Mengistu, who, after a coup in 1977, set out to create a socialist state in Ethiopia aligned with the communist bloc, was overthrown in 1991 by he Ethiopian People's Democratic Front. (Photo credit should read JEROME DELAY/AFP/GettyImages)
ETHIOPIA-STATUE OF LENIN-COMMUNISM
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