Vladimir Skywalker

The Ukraine doesn’t have much love left for the old Soviet leaders.  There’s even a law calling for the destruction of their statues.

Outside a factory in Odessa, Ukrainian artist Alexander Milov transformed this piece  rather than destroy it– changing it from the likeness of Vladimir Lenin to that of Darth Vader.

As the factory manager is quoted as saying, “Everything flows, everything changes, old figures give way to new ones, and so the world turns.”