@hightor,
As an aside:
In Gelsenkirchen (Germany) a statue of Lenin will be unveiled in front of the headquarters of the left-wing extremist party MLPD ("Marxist-Leninist Party Germany"), which has been causing controversy for quite some time.
The city had unsuccessfully tried to prevent the monument from being erected (The city of Gelsenkirchen had imposed a construction stop, but then lost before the Higher Administrative Court).
Now they are reacting with an exhibition on the history of communism.
On Friday the exhibition "Communism in its Age" will start in the Horst Castle directly opposite the party's headquarters. The city wants to enlighten about communism and to work on its ideology.
The statue was cast in 1957 in what was then Czechoslovakia and then "banned" at some point after 1990.