The sound you hear is American professors wailing, along with the anti-EU FReepers (who cannot get over their bromance with Putin).
If my sources are correct, to American proffessoriat Lenin is the Jesus of Marxism, pure, unsinned, uncorruptible, and it was only his successors (with notable exceptions whose identities we outsiders would never guess, and I won’t attempt, except to note that they keep changing, I mean Enver Hoxha was one of them once), only Saint Vladimir’s successors who perverted and in the end betrayed (the criminals Gorbachev and Yeltsin) his sacred scripture, and this destruction of the holy religious monument is, what can we say, sacreligious, outrageous, impermissible.