POLATSK, Belarus — Five busts of Vladimir Lenin line the sidewalk outside a house in the provincial Belarusian city of Polatsk. “A society without a past is like a man without a shadow,” reads an inscription at the door to the Epoch of Lenin private museum. Nikolai Pankrat, a retired military man, has assembled a collection more than 10,000 pieces of memorabilia commemorating the Bolshevik leader, including 500 busts, jammed into eye-straining rooms in his home. Elsewhere, Lenin reads a newspaper or Lenin listens to Beethoven with his head thrown back. On the walls hung portraits of Lenin, who remains for me both an example and an adviser for life,” Pankrat said.

Source: National Post November 01, 2017 13:07 UTC