Those Falling Statues of Lenin

No one in the Opposition stronghold of Lviv has torn down the statue of the Opposition's hero from the 1940s, Stepan Bandera, who proclaimed that, "We shall lay the heads of the Jews at the feet of Hitler."

We are accustomed to thinking that the alternative to the Soviet Union was something like Simon Hughes. It was not.

These statues are being torn down by people, representative of no one but themselves, who think that the anti-Soviet side was right during the War, and we all know who and what that side was.

They had stood for a generation after the fall of the USSR in order to make the contrary point.

Just as there are still a few streets in Britain named after Stalin; as far as I am aware, and although I am open to correction on this point, there are still as many as there have ever been. After all, he really was our ally during the War.

The questions raised by those street names are questions about the War itself.

But we cannot be asking any of those, now, can we? What is this, the ILP?