The owner of the Lenin statue is willing to sell it - last I heard he wanted $250,000. It’s had a couple of, er, “modifications” over the years including the red paint on his hands and a marital aid attached to his head. Not sure the latter is still there. The Fremont locals aren’t exactly thrilled at the presence of the thing but enjoyed a sense of irony for a while. The Seattle city council could solve the entire affair by purchasing the statue and moving it downtown to a place where they could worship it properly, which its current members would very likely do.
The Lenin statue would have gone up when the Fremont area was heavily blue collar working neighborhood. That was back when the Communist Party was totally embracing the blue collar worker. There were a lot of cheap flophouse hotels where transient workers could stay.
The Fremont area has been heavily gentrified since then. Although it is a bastion of lefties and gays, they likely do not want an overt sign of their ultra leftism.