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Polish town wants Lenin statue back
Feb 3, 2011, 15:14 GMT
Warsaw - A Polish town where Vladimir Lenin once stayed wants to bring back a statue of the former Bolshevik leader in an effort to draw visitors, local media reported Thursday.
'There's not much going on here, and there are fewer and fewer tourists,' Anna Malacin, a councillor in the southern town of Poronin, told a local newspaper.
'Are the times coming when we will need to reconsider Lenin?' Malacin asked.
Poronin was once a popular tourist destination for visitors across the Soviet Union when it was home to the 3-ton bronze statue of Lenin. The statue is currently in a museum of socialist realism.
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