One of my favored landmarks in Seattle — favored because it's kitschy, not commie.
From Wikipedia (sorry for all the included, cluttering links):
"The Statue of Lenin is a 16 ft (5 m) bronze statue of Russian Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It was created by Bulgarian-born Slovak sculptor Emil Venkov and initially put on display in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1988, the year before the Velvet Revolution. In 1993, the statue was bought by an American who had found it lying in a scrapyard. He brought it home with him to Washington state but died before he could carry out his plans for formally displaying it.
"Since 1995, the statue has been held in trust waiting for a buyer, standing on temporary display for the last 27 years on a prominent street corner in Fremont. It has become a local landmark, frequently being either decorated or vandalized. The statue has sparked political controversy, including criticism for being communist chic and not taking the historic meaning of Lenin and communism seriously (or taking it too seriously), or by comparing the purported acceptance of such a charged political symbol to the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials. Much of the debate ignores the statue's private ownership and installation on private property, with the public and government having virtually no say in the matter."
I for one see no conflict in permitting Vladimir to stand while toppling Robert E. What I do see when passing by the statue are giggles or gawks from onlookers, nothing more. And most of the gawkers probably possess as little comprehension of who Vladimir Lenin was than they do General Lee. Such is the deplorable state of historical knowledge among Americans. Not that we as a nation are unique in our ignorance. I recently heard that eminent scholar of the Second World War, Andrew Roberts, mention on C-Span that 15 percent of Britain's high school students think Winston Churchill was a fictional character.