epa10420516 Municipal workers dismantle a metal Christmas tree in front of the Lenin Monument on Moscow Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, 21 January 2023. Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Russian Communist party and father of the Communist revolution, who died on 21 January 1924, was placed in the mausoleum in Moscow, despite his wish to be buried near his mother at the Volkovo cemetery in St. Petersburg. EPA/ANATOLY MALTSEV
