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Dissolution - Clear Signs of Independence

They Changed the name from Red Square, but the statue of Lenin remains. (Odessa, Ukraine) Posted by Hello

You can change the name of a place, and you can call your country independent all you want, but what surprises me is that there has been a lack of effort to at least make all things appear obviously changed. President Karimov of Uzbekistan has outdone Ukraine on this front. He took all the reminders of Lenin and Russia out of the country and placed instead statues and symbols of an Uzbek history that never existed - very creative.

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