He's DEAD, Jim!
Posted on 02/08/2006 11:04:17 AM PST by x5452
08 February 2006, 11:00 Majority opinion needed on whether or not to bury Lenin - Putin
Moscow, February 8, Interfax - Any decision on whether or not to bury the body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, currently housed in a mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, should be guided by the sentiments of the majority of Russians, President Vladimir Putin said.
"I will seek decisions that have the support of the overwhelming majority of the citizens of our country and, I would like to emphasize this again, decisions that are conducive to conciliation and to national unification rather than to schism," Putin told the Spanish media.
"I believe that, just as the Spanish suffered during the civil war some time ago, the Russian population suffered in the same way or even more from internal strife and civil confrontation. Today we should do nothing that threatens a split and instead should make every move to achieve unification and conciliation," he said.
Putin, who said he had visited the grave of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during a trip to Spain, argued it was wrong to equate communism with fascism. "Each ideology had its own notions of justice and its own problems. It seems to me that equating the two is completely incorrect," he said.
Still Putin's right the will of the people should be done.
More recently updated article on what Putin said with regard to Lenin.
Why should they bury lenin?
Because he is dead.
Just offer it for sale on ebay.
As are his evil and stupid ideas (In Russia at least.)
How about Hillary's backyard?
Poor Lenin! All dressed up and nowhere to go.
They should have some museum put him under a glass doorstep and offer the public to walk on his grave.
Sure sure, democratically elected leaders insisting the people's will be done, all utterly authoritarian.
Hacked into pieces and throw down a well.
Wouldn't that be ironic!
DITTO
Putin's a wise fox.
Always let the People vote, have a say, get their way on every important, symbolic, passion-raising thing.
That sort of democracy is the kind that works best of all, and makes people happy with their government.
Just don't let them near the levers of the economy.
If Americans were wise in their government, the party that wanted to stay in power forever would let Americans vote on abortion and things gay, on guns and smoking and porn and prostitution, impose the will of the majority in each case, and keep letting those issues percolate through the direct ballot process.
And then just run the economy whatever way they wanted to.
Lenin himself wanted to be buried in a simple grave. The whole mummy icon farce was Stalin's idea. I say, finally honor Lenin's final wishes.
(I seem to recally that they were shot repeatedly, then hacked to pieces and buried but none the less I'd be all to happy to see the same become of Lenin. )
Lenin should lay in the lobby of the DNC HQ.
Figures. Stalin hated Lenin behind the scenes, it was probably half or more out of spite that he did it (and only a mind as saddistic as Stalin's could have thought it was inspirational to have a mumified dead guy on display in the nations capital).
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