Visitors take photos near the statues of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin  in Druskininkai, Lithuania, in October 2017.

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, visitors take photos near the statues of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin at the Grutas Park, in Druskininkai, some 120 km (75 miles) south of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, Lithuania. Grutas Park is a sculpture garden of Soviet-era statues and other Soviet ideological relics from the times of the Lithuanian SSR. The thousands of statues of Vladimir Lenin spread across the vast region bring to mind poet Vladimir Mayakovsky's ringing line of devotion: "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live." (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

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