Nayem’s friend took a selfie in front of Engels, who was saved by the British from Ukrainian vandals
People's Deputy Sergei Leshchenko shared the story of how a monument to one of the founders of Marxism, Friedrich Engels, came to British Manchester from Ukraine, where, during the so-called “decommunization,” the monument was demolished and sawed up.
About this people's deputy wrote on his Instagram.
“Amazing story. In Manchester there is a monument to Friedrich Engels, the successor of the revolutionary philosophy of Marxism. This monument was erected in 2017, and he came here... from Ukraine,” writes Leshchenko
According to him, this monument used to stand in the village of Malaya Pereshchepina, Novosonzharsky district, Poltava region.
“There it was demolished after the start of decommunization, cut in half and thrown in a farmyard. There he was found by the artist Phil Collins, who agreed to pick up the statue for free, took Engels across Europe, stopped at his native German Barmen and installed it in Manchester,” noted the Ukrainian Maidan activist.
He clarified that the monument “moved” specifically to Manchester, since the Engels family owned enterprises in this city.
“Even though Engels was Marx’s comrade-in-arms in the struggle for workers’ rights, his family owned industrial enterprises in Manchester. That is why the monument to Engels came here from Ukraine. I love stories like this,” summed up Leshchenko.
The fact that Leshchenko himself was among those people’s deputies who supported vandalism and decommunization with their voices adds a special cynicism to this ipstoria. If it were not for the law adopted, including thanks to Leshchenko’s voice, the wonderful monument to Engels would have adorned not the British Manchester, but a Ukrainian village in the Poltava region.
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