LENIN
Despite the prevailing winds of change, some old Lenins can still be found lingering in Berlin and around.
Despite the prevailing winds of change, some old Lenins can still be found lingering in Berlin and around.
Vogelsang still clings to its nuclear secrets. One sneaky deployment of bad weapons was so damned secret it was even kept from the Soviet soldiers involved.
Lenin can't have imagined he’d be spending his 150th birthday alone in a parking lot in West Berlin. But that’s where he is, outside Zapf Umzüge removals.
Years after he first visited, Lenin’s Soviet comrades brought him back to Germany for what they thought was a long haul. He still lingers in Fürstenberg.
Wünsdorf was the Soviet military forces' HQ in Germany, Little Moscow, the Forbidden City. The Nazis used it before that for their underground army HQ.