KARL MARX MONUMENT DISMANTLED, TO BE REPLACED BY CHURCH: The Google machine tells me this is real. Via WAWIV; click through to the link-within-a-link:

The monument to Karl Marx at Sovetskaya Square in downtown Penza was dismantled as a cathedral will be erected instead of it, the Penza Diocese told Interfax.

“A part of the Savior Cathedral will occupy this part of the square; its construction is underway,” the interviewee of the agency said. …

The world’s first monument to Marx was set up in Penza on May 1, 1918, but it broke down as it was made of clay.

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