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Lenin or bust

Germany is to open a new museum dedicated to the torn down statues from Nazi and Communist regimes.

Pride of place will go to the monstrous 62 ft high, 3.5 ton granite bust of Lenin pulled down in Berlin and buried in 1991 after the fall of Communism.

Other sculptures on show will be idealised Aryan figures approved by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during World War II and other monuments from Germany's Prussian past.

Meanwhile, a reproduction of a statue of Lenin made from sweets and chocolate has been put up where the real thing used to stand in Bucharest, Romania.

The statue will be auctioned off to raise money for a museum of Communist statues restored after they were toppled after the rise of democracy, said artist Ioan Ciocan.

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