Posted on 06/20/2020 8:29:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
While a global row rages over the controversial background of historical figures immortalized as statues, on Saturday a divisive new monument to Soviet leader Lenin will be unveiled in Germany.
More than 30 years after the post-World War II communist experiment on German soil ended, the tiny Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) will install Lenin's likeness in the western city of Gelsenkirchen.
The MLPD says it is the first such statue ever to be erected on the territory of the former West Germany, decades after the eastern German Democratic Republic communist state and its deadly Berlin Wall and Stasi secret police collapsed.
“The time for monuments to racists, anti-Semites, fascists, anti-communists and other relics of the past has clearly passed,” said MLPD chair Gabi Fechtner in a statement.
By contrast, “Lenin was an ahead-of-his-time thinker of world-historical importance, an early fighter for freedom and democracy,” she argued. …
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Lenin turned most of the people of his country into slaves.
Hello, Lenin!
Does BLM have a 1-800 number?
Perhaps reunification well a long-term effort by East Germany to conquer West Germany. Angela Merkel was an East German.
Old communist-era joke:
Hitler arrives in Hell. There is immersed into a lake of fire up to his neck. Looking over to his left he sees Stalin, who is only in up to his waist.
Hitler turns to the Devil and asks: “Stalin killed many more people that I did - why is he only in the fire up to his waist, and I am immersed in the fire up to my neck?”
The Devil smirks and replies: “But Stalin is standing on Lenin’s shoulders!”
“anti-communists and other relics of the past”
CRUSH COMMUNISTS old, paleo, and neo.
Despots one and all.
Communists have conquered land there now and are emboldened.
I don’t know about anti-communists being a thing of the past, seems like we could use some about now.
“Lenin was a fighter for freedom and democracy? In what universe?”
They’ve been teaching these lies at universities for decades. It’s really sick.
They got more help from people like Adenauer and Willy Brandt than is generally known. The EU itself is USSR-like enough.
In a way, it’s kind of true that Lenin was a fighter for freedom and democracy... if you define those terms in the way that the Bolsheviks’ ideological ancestors, the Jacobins, did.
There’s a Lenin statue in Seattle.
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