Lenin in Yellow and Blue Baquedano

LENIN IN YELLOW AND BLUE

V. Lenin personifies the Russian revolution. Soviet era monuments dot the landscape of the Soviet Republic of Ukraine that achieved independence in the 1990s. Ukraine is currently groaning around the statue of Lenin in his great coat. Here he stands, draped in Ukrainian yellow and blue when the underlying palette is mud.

BAQUEDANO

Manuel Jesús Baquedano González was a Chilean senator and military leader and the subject of a massive equestrian statue that rose high above a central plaza in Santiago before its 2021 removal for ‘repairs’.