I don't know if it is posted but this "personal view" article is worth looking at:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3173
When the statue was first raised in Fremont, many Russian émigrés protested the move, arguing that Lenin represented the system that had persecuted and killed millions of their people. But the "tolerant" segment of the Fremont community ultimately won out. Lenin stayed
seems some people will tolerate anything.