BERLIN, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- German officials on Thursday unearthed the granite head of Vladimir Lenin, part of a 62-foot tall sculpture of the Russian leader, buried since 1992 near Berlin.
The statue graced East Berlin from 1970 until the fall of communism. It was removed in 1992 on the order of Eberhard Diepgen, the first mayor of the reunited Berlin, who said it was representative of a "dictatorship where people were persecuted and murdered."