The Vladimir Lenin monument in Kiev was a statue dedicated to the founder of the Soviet Union in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It became noticed as being directly involved in the Euromaidan events when it was violently toppled from its pedestal and crushed by an angry mob on December 8, 2013. Later in its place, a golden toilet was installed atop the pedestal as a metaphorical symbol of state corruption, and since then, it has become a site of political artwork. Over a hundred other Lenin statues and Soviet icons across Ukraine were destroyed from December 2013 to February 2014.