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Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, founder of Russia's Communist Party, and premier of the Soviet Union, has been dead since 1924, but his image has lived on worldwide for nearly a century.

With the backing of the Soviet government, tens of thousands of statues, busts, and monuments to Lenin were erected in former Soviet states and allied nations. These likenesses became worldwide symbols of communism and the Soviet Union, and they have ridden the tides of fortune and disfavor over the decades.

Dismantling Lenin statues is a symbolic act that goes back to World War II, and continues through the present day; last week, protestors in Ukraine tore down their country's largest Lenin monument. Collected here are photos of Lenin monuments from across the world, including Lithuania, Latvia, Mongolia, Ghana, Ukraine, Cuba, Russia, Romania, Vietnam, Georgia, Svalbard, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Ethiopia and Bulgaria.

A billiard club in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, with bust of Vladimir Lenin, 2007.

Lina Mackonyte takes a break from sightseeing in Gruto Park beside a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Druskininkai, Lithuania, on August 9, 2001.

A student swings a club at a bust of Lenin in front of a pile of communist and Pro-Nkrumah literature that was burned outside the Congress Hall in Accra, Ghana, on February 28, 1966.

Pro-Russian militants guard a checkpoint, on which is placed a bust of Lenin, near the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk, on May 22, 2014.

A Cuban soldier stands guard in front of a monument to the Soviet Union's founder, Vladimir Lenin, in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, April 22, 1999.

People pass Lenin's monument in the center of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv during a very foggy day on February 4, 2008.

A crumbling bust of Lenin stands in the center of the town of Sviyazhsk, some 750 km (400 miles) east of Moscow, on July 4, 1994.

Russian forensic experts examine the holes from a bomb blast in a monument of Vladimir Lenin in St. Petersburg on April 1, 2009. Vandals set off an explosion that damaged one of the last Soviet-era monuments to the Communist leader in Russia's former imperial capital.

December 11, 2009, a child walks on the statue of Vladimir Lenin, abandoned in the backyard of the Mogosoaia Palace, Romania, after being removed from a Bucharest square in 1990.

A frozen monument to Vladimir Lenin, covered in ice, as the temperature dropped below -30 degrees Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit) in downtown Yakutsk on December 28, 2009.

Left: Two Russian soldiers inspect a giant statue of Lenin, somewhere in Russia, on August 9, 1941, torn from its pedestal and smashed by the Nazis in their advance. Right: Seventy-year-old militiaman aims his AK-47 at a strangled bust of Lenin, on May 13, 1992 in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Members of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist party applaud in front of Lenin's bust during the XIII party's congress in Moscow on November 29, 2008.

A Lithuanian girl sits on a toppled statue of Vladimir Lenin on September 1, 1991 in Vilnius, after the monument was removed from the center of the Lithuanian capital in the aftermath of the failed coup in the Soviet Union.

A gardener works next to a statue of Lenin in downtown Hanoi, Vietnam on April 22, 2010.

Romanian citizens strike the head of a Lenin statue in Bucharest, Romania, on March 5, 1990.

Georgian soldiers participating in NATO training exercises walk near a broken statue of Lenin at Vaziani military base, a former Soviet military facility, outside Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 31, 2009.

An activist dismantles Ukraine's biggest monument to Lenin at a pro-Ukrainian rally in the central square of the eastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on September 28, 2014.

Activists prepare to pull down Ukraine's biggest monument to Lenin.

Lenin's statue falls in the central square of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on September 28, 2014.

Activists dismantle monument to Lenin on September 28, 2014.

An activist carries a piece of the face of a fallen Lenin statue.

A man walks past a bust of Lenin in the Russian village of Barentsburg on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard on April 26, 2007.

A Chechen militiaman perches atop a toppled statue of Lenin in the Sonja River near Grozny on October 25, 1991.

Ethiopian youths chant as they stand on a toppled statue of Lenin on May 23, 1991 in Addis Ababa, two days after the departure in exile of Ethiopian pro-communist strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam.

A five-ton bust of Vladimir Lenin arrives at Sotheby's in Billinghurst on October 29, 1997. The 2.6 meter bronze bust was shipped from Latvia where it had stood in the town square until the fall of Communism.

A Bulgarian cleaning lady sweeps the head of a giant monument of Vladimir Lenin in the Black Sea city of Varna on January 21, 1999.