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Arts centre with cinemas, theatres and galleries, fronted by a rescued Soviet-era statue of Engels.
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This guide to HOME in Manchester skips the cinema screens and stops at the concrete figure standing outside, Friedrich Engels with his arms folded. It follows the artist Phil Collins into eastern Ukraine after the decommunisation laws of twenty fifteen, hunting for one particular Soviet-era statue. Stand by the plinth and look for the Cyrillic letters on its base.
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