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Police cordon off the figures of Soviet soldiers at the base of the Soviet Army monument in Sofia, painted in pink by an unknown artist August 21, 2013. Unknown artists have painted
![Police officers in riot gear detain activists of Natalia Vitrenko's Progressive Socialist Party who tried to break a cordon of a rally to mark the 65th anniversary of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian Insurgent Police officers in riot gear detain activists of Natalia Vitrenko's Progressive Socialist Party who tried to break a cordon of a rally to mark the 65th anniversary of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian Insurgent](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2PB0F3X/police-officers-in-riot-gear-detain-activists-of-natalia-vitrenkos-progressive-socialist-party-who-tried-to-break-a-cordon-of-a-rally-to-mark-the-65th-anniversary-of-the-anti-soviet-ukrainian-insurgent-army-in-downtown-kiev-on-sunday-oct-14-2007-the-anniversary-and-calls-to-recognize-the-anti-soviet-partisans-as-world-war-ii-veterans-has-divided-ukraine-with-the-more-nationalistic-west-supporting-recognition-and-the-russian-speaking-east-opposing-it-hostility-runs-deep-because-in-the-wars-early-years-the-anti-soviet-partisans-aligned-themselves-with-the-nazis-seeing-the-invasion-as-2PB0F3X.jpg)
Police officers in riot gear detain activists of Natalia Vitrenko's Progressive Socialist Party who tried to break a cordon of a rally to mark the 65th anniversary of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian Insurgent
![Soviet security troops and militia form a cordon and block all approaches to the covered 60-foot statue of Nikolai Lenin just before the unveiling in Lenin Square, Tiflis, Soviet Georgia on April Soviet security troops and militia form a cordon and block all approaches to the covered 60-foot statue of Nikolai Lenin just before the unveiling in Lenin Square, Tiflis, Soviet Georgia on April](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2NBX56T/soviet-security-troops-and-militia-form-a-cordon-and-block-all-approaches-to-the-covered-60-foot-statue-of-nikolai-lenin-just-before-the-unveiling-in-lenin-square-tiflis-soviet-georgia-on-april-27-1956-the-crowd-in-center-background-was-held-at-a-safe-distance-other-troops-patrolled-the-city-the-residents-of-the-city-of-800000-were-kept-under-close-surveillance-to-prevent-a-repetition-of-the-bloody-pro-stalin-demonstrations-on-march-9-ap-photo-2NBX56T.jpg)