It is thought that Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is the subject of the most non-religious statues on earth, even after many were toppled in the early 1990s. In December of 1958, a Soviet expedition reached Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility, the point of the continent furthest from any coastline. They arrived in tractors, and build an airstrip and several buildings. They also erected a substantial bust of Lenin atop the chimney of one of the buildings. The plane that picked them up left a generator, a radio transmitter, and stores of food. But no one ever used that research station. A few Soviet and American expeditions visited in the 1960s, but it was mostly forgotten afterward. After all, it wasn't easy to find, much less get there.
In 2007, a British team reached the Point of Inaccessibility on kite skis. They found the research station completely gone, buried under Arctic snow and ice, with only Lenin remaining, looking toward Moscow. Read the story of the inaccessible Lenin statue at Boing Boing.
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