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Underwater Museum Lenin

Underwater Museum Lenin

Diver illuminates the bust of Lenin in the informal underwater museum of monuments to leaders of world communism at a depth of 14 meters at Cape Tarkhankut 200 km from Simferopol in the Crimea. “Underwater Museum” was founded in 1992 to save thrown monuments and busts from abuse. To date, it has more than two dozen pieces, most of which are busts of Lenin. (Photo by AP Photo | Sergey Dolzhenko)