Finish the work of de-Leninization that began after the dissolution of the USSR: DOWN with the Statue of Lenin in Seattle!

May this set a good example for the Russian people and Duma to end the tradition of allowing absolutist Dictators to rule their country.  We might also suggest that the current incumbent revise his job description under a constitutionally limited government with an independent judiciary, so that Russia can succeed in the world, or else consider finding a new position. 

Moreover, the ubiquity of bronze Lenins in the public squares and plazas of Russia is unfair to Ivan the Terrible, or to Nicolas II, or to even Josef Stalin who made Lenin and Leninism is famous all over Asia.  Russia should diversify its public art portfolio to include other formidable totalitarians, or better yet, do away with statuary altogether.  If the state wants to honor great men of the past, the state may record their notable sayings in monumental inscriptions.  Men's words are easier to preserve than their dead corpses, words don't require any magical thinking in order to have their effect on the masses, and words are a better antidote to the opiate of false religiosity than mute statues, which are a prime source of it.  For example,

Бори́с Ви́кторович Са́винков, Boris Savinkov, writes 1921, ''"The Russian people do not want Lenin, Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky, not merely because the Bolsheviks mobilize them, shoot them, take their grain and are ruining Russia. The Russian people do not want them for the simple reason that .... nobody elected them."'' (Volkogonov, 1994, p.72)

Neither Savinkov nor the author who quotes him, Dmitri Volkogonov, have statues in Russia.  Neither has left us with relics to speculate on.  Nevertheless their words remain, and are far more powerful than any bronze Lenin statue with eyes that don't see, ears that don't hear, feet that don't walk, and a brain that can't think, much like Lenin's own during his last years of mental retardation after the stroke, divine retribution perhaps for the deceptive falsehood he deliberately spread among the russian people in the interest of consolidating power. 

According to Дми́трий Анто́нович Волкого́нов, "It never occured to us", he wrote, "that the 'breakthrough' of October 1917 might be a counter-revolution, when compared to the events of February [Revolution] of that year." (Volkogonov, 1994, p.478)

May the downfall of the bronze Seattle Lenin set a good example for the Russian people and Duma to learn from the Ukrainian "Leninfall" movement and exorcise from their political life the ghost of a militant athiest who rejected the rule of law and taught his people to instead worship mere power in the form of totalitarian dictatorship, perverting the cause of social justice in order to confiscate of peasants grain, whose stated method of social control was verbal abuse, deception, and ruthless terrorism against "enemies of the people":  ruthless public murders to silence dissent, and then exiling disobedient citizens to the prison reeducation camp, to the state mental hospital, and to the prison-industrial gulag archipelago.

1. Topple the remaining statues of Lenin in Russia.

2. Bury the mummy of Lenin and dismantle the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow.  These "relics" have no magic properties, but if these ones did, they would probably make your heart sick.

3. Renounce the Marxist-Leninist ideology invented by Stalin, and the Leninist ideology before it, and renounce its promotion of totalitarian dictatorship, obsessive fixation on internal "enemies of the people", ruthless cruelty, deception, and state-sponsored terrorism.

Bibliography for Further Reading

Volkogonov, Dmitri (1994). Lenin: A New Biography. Translated by Shukman, Harold. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-255123-6.

Shub, David (1966). Lenin: A Biography (revised ed.). London: Pelican.

Lenin, Vladimir (1948). "Appendix: Essentials of Leninism". Lenin: A Biography. By Shub, David (revised ed.). New York: Mentor Books.

Sebestyen, Victor (2017). Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror. Pantheon Books. ISBN 9781101871638.