When was this obscene travesty erected? I’m offended,but I’m Christian, white, male and a veteran. Therefore my feelings don’t count. The opinion molders of the Left have made that plain.
The statue of Lenin was found in a scrapyard in Poprad, Czechoslovakia, after the the fall of Czechoslovak communism during the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Lewis E. Carpenter, a teacher from Issaquah, Washington, offered to buy it for $13,000. It was chopped up in three pieces and shipped to Issaquah in August 1993. Carpenter wanted to erect it in Issaquah, but that created much turmoil that it was rejected. Before Carpenter could succeed in find a permanent place for it, he died in an auto accident.
Carpenter’s family had the statue sent to a Fremont foundry to be melted down (it was valuable because it was bronze). However, the foundry’s owner, Peter Bevis, took an interest in it and had it erected in Fremont on June 3, 1995. Its location did not last long and it was moved to its present spot at the intersection of Fremont Place North, North 36th Street and Evanston Avenue North in 1996.