Quirky World: Lenin’s huge granite head exhumed for exhibition

GERMANY: The 3,900kg granite head of Vladimir Lenin that was removed from a Berlin square in 1991 has been unearthed for an exhibition.

The head was part of a 19m Lenin figure unveiled in 1970 on East Berlin’s Leninplatz, or Lenin Square.

After the reunification of Germany, the statue was removed, broken into 129 pieces, and buried in woods on the city’s southeastern edge. The plaza was renamed United Nations Square.