Sorry about that. Here's a better one
LOL
Posted on 06/24/2006 6:14:06 AM PDT by Popman
Russian communists reacted with dismay yesterday after they discovered that strippers and drunken businessmen had turned the birthplace of Lenin, once one of the most hallowed museums in the land, into a wild party zone.
The Lenin Memorial Museum, a complex of buildings with Lenin's home at its heart in the central Russian town of Ulyanovsk, admitted throwing open its doors to corporate parties in an attempt to raise revenues.
Museum staff acted as waiters at vodka-tasting parties and other events hosted by local banks and factories that often degenerated into binges with strippers, local newspapers reported.It is all a far cry from Soviet times, when dutiful citizens travelled to the museum on the banks of the Volga to pay homage at the simple house.
"We wish we did not have to engage in things like this but we have to maintain the building somehow," said Valery Perfilov, the museum's director, insisting that Lenin probably would not have minded. "Lenin was very pragmatic and flexible. He was known for his many compromises."
Local communists, however, met the governor of Ulyanovsk yesterday to lodge a formal complaint.
"Everything is for sale nowadays - body and soul," said Alexander Kruglikov, the head of the Communist Party's local branch. "I think making money out of Lenin's name is a shame."
Governor Sergey Morozov is unlikely to sympathise, however, as he wants to turn the museum into a theme park called Leninland, where visitors can dodge secret police and relive "the gulag experience".
I bet the businessmen would just as soon keep it the way it is now, where they're standing in long lines to ride the strippers.
I think it's irony at its finest.
Wild Corporate Partys in Russia? and Lenin?
I see no Contradiction.
There never was a Utopia in Russia.
Communism is a Satanic Lie.
The Commie leaders ate caviar and Had Hookers all the while the people Starved...
It was worse than any Tzar.
Stalin was a Butcher and a Lunatic..and Our Media is His bastard Children.
America's Traitorous liberal Media.
Michael Moore
Katie couric
Dan Rather
Peter Jennings
Walter Kronkite
Chris Matthews
All the Scummy Inbreds.
Sorry about that. Here's a better one
LOL
*snicker* That's pretty good. :)
Although a dead Lenin is better than an alive one that's still not what I had in mind.
Here you go. Ask and you shall receive
Still not what I was thinking about. Correct in name only.
Good old fashioned capitalism to the rescue again! THIS is a supremely delicious irony.
You can rent various Smithsonian museums for parties where booze is served. I've been to a few. Didn't see any strippers though, so I guess that's the difference.
I would think a comparsion would be renting out Mount Vernon for business parties.
"If the partyers really wanted to pull a goof,"
Weekend at Lenny's?
"The bastard killed my ancestors so I'd be happy to dance on his grave."
So, uh...how'd ya get here?
"...their Lenin is a waxen, show-case SHAM."
Robert W. Service could sure spin a yarn, but when it came to crap detecting, he was one of the best. No pasty pinko poet he.
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My great-grandmother was a child when the revolution happened. Last year, before she died, she told of how the communists came, took all of their possessions, killed the family and left her to starve. It was the first time she spoke of it because she was so afraid before.
The Nazis also killed most of my ancestors in the Holocaust.
The commies are no better than the Nazis in my book."
That's what the codepinko "peacenik" types would do to us if they got the chance.
Yeah,Capitalism wins and I guess we should all celebrate but the article points out something that has always troubled me as someone who is at least TRYING to be morally conservative.
I was brought up to see conservatism as a philosophy that shunned wild parties and strippers.In fact,those practices were seen by me to be the property of amoral liberals and moral relativists who cared not for Biblical principles but only mindless hedonism.Yet all too often "conservatives"on this board think such goings on are just fabulous!
Maybe someone here could explain the contradiction.
"The commies are no better than the Nazis in my book."
Got the same book in my library. Safe travel.
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