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A blue Lenin in Podobovets



Ackermann is preparing for an exhibition of the project in Moscow later this year, a show which is likely to attract controversy. "I want it to spark discussion. What would upset me is people using it as propaganda -- I don’t want Ukraine to use it to say, 'Look, we’re turning the page,' but at the same time I don’t want Russia to use it and say, 'Look at these vandals, they are behaving like [the Islamic State group] in [the Syrian city of] Palmyra.'”