Lew Carpenter, the American who bought the Lenin statue in Poprad, Slovakia, wanted to start a restaurant with the statue out front, but he was killed in a car accident in 1995 before he could realize his dream. However, in a way it did come to fruition: Lenin now stands in a plaza in front of two cafes.
A statue of the Russian revolutionay leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, stands on a busy street corner in the Fremont district of Seattle.