[dayglored]

...turned the Sith Lord's helmet into a Wi-Fi hotspot...

You just can't make up news this good.

[dayglored]

whaddya think? napl?

[davius]

I don’t have one of those. I should get one.

[Michael.SF.]

In Prague they have turned the Lenin Monument into a skateboarding mecca.

[RedHeeler]

Is it Seattle, that has statue of Lenin, in a public park? Just wandering amongst the starz.

[ETL]

"Putin said Stalin deserves statues in his honor "

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131219/185734707/Putin-Says-Stalin-No-Worse-Than-Cunning-Oliver-Cromwell.html
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"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...

"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'..."

"The more I see and read about Mr. Putin, in power since 1999, and his 'managed democracy,' the more apprehensive I become about the future of Russia and the safety of its neighbors.

If Putin believes that the dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states represents the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,' then it follows that Putin might well believe he should do something to repair the loss..."

http://web.archive.org/web/20090415000000*/http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
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“The demise of the Soviet Union was the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century',” Putin said in 2005.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/article/11102.30640.0.0/asia/moscow-puts-the-soviet-squeeze-on-neighbor-nations
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"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."

Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100711090651/http://article.nationalreview.com/365528/forgetting-the-evils-of-communism/jonah-goldberg

[dfwgator]

My favorite Lenin statue.

[KarlInOhio]

Do you think that Disney could come up with enough money to do this to Lenin's body to promote the new Star Wars movie?

Obama, I am you political father.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Empire strikes back

[PLMerite]

Vladimir Ilyich Vader.

[elhombrelibre]

They could have used Putin’s head.

[Jimmy Valentine]

In Kiev the people pounded the granite statue of Lenin into pea gravel

[Slyfox]

Speaking of transformations, I got a sculptor to turn the head of Roosevelt into Ronald Reagan. It proudly sits atop my mantle:

[Flick Lives]

The WiFi hotspot in the helmet is a nice touch.