Posted on 03/07/2020 8:38:41 AM PST by Olog-hai
Gelsenkirchen’s administrative court lifted city orders to halt construction, allowing the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) as owner of a city land plot to proceed with erecting its depiction of the Soviet leader who led Russia’s 1917 armed revolution.
The city had argued Lenin’s effigy would spoil the heritage value of an adjacent former communal Sparkasse savings bank building in the 260,000-population city otherwise famed for its Schalke football team, perhaps fittingly sponsored by Russian state energy giant Gazprom.
But judges said the architectural objection and controversy over Lenin’s historical role were irrelevant because the statue would be placed more than 10 meters away. The MLPD could proceed from March 14, they said.
Objectors can still submit via rapid application an appeal to a higher court.
A member of Germany’s national parliament, Marco Buschmann, a Gelsenkirchen local with the opposition business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP), was highly critical of the plan.
“A Lenin statue would be a disgrace for Gelsenkirchen,” Buschmann wrote on Twitter. “Lenin stands for mass murder and totalitarianism. Anyone who wants to erect a Lenin statue should ask themselves whether they are still grounded in liberal democratic principles or not.” …
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Not to mention that Anti Semitism also raging in neighboring Belgium and other countries. Ghosts of USSR and Nazi Germany have not been laid to rest!
There’s a Lenin statue in Seattle...
It needs to be doused in red paint to represent the blood spilled by the victims of communism. A couple supertanker loads should do it for the 100+ million killed.
A monument erected in memory of a monumentally evil man.
Very fitting for Merkel’s Germany.
They prohibit Hitler, but allow Lenin. Both are abhorrent.
Bringing old East Germany across all states.
No one sees the irony of a statue of Lenin on private property?
It’s like a mosque on a Christian church.
They have Obama judges in Germany?
Yeah. Which the Muslims routinely do to establish supremacy.
Which is of course why the German Communists are doing it.
BernieBro staffer Mason Baird: “after we abolish landlords, we don’t have to kill them “
They are descended from the ones who originated the ideology of Obama judges.
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