Nehru Park New Delhi
Vast park in a diplomatic enclave with a Soviet-era Lenin statue and shaded lawns.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Nehru Park in New Delhi follows a bronze Lenin statue unveiled in 1987, when Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet officials gathered here to mark the Russian Revolution's seventieth anniversary. It traces the statue through the Soviet collapse four years later, when Lenin monuments across Eastern Europe came down, and the Cold War balancing act between Moscow and Washington that shaped this diplomatic enclave. Return on April 22nd for the annual gathering beneath it.
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