'Tear Down That Lenin Statue,' Critic Tells Trop

pressofatlanticcity.com ^ | May 27, 2008 | Martin DeAngelis

[weegee]

Put up a competing bar called Stalin's Gulag. Come and drink your miseries away. Obama would probably even approve.

[Alouette]

In Moscow, they have costumed impersonators walking around so tourists can take their pictures. There’s Lenin, Tsar Nikolai, Prince Mikhail and Princess Sophia, even a Putin impersonator (I’m pretty sure it was an impersonator, I don’t think the real Putin would just be strolling around Red Square chatting with tourists)

There is no Stalin impersonator.

The Lenin impersonator is really a very funny guy, he put birdseed on his jacket so the pigeons perch on his shoulders and crap all over his hat and jacket. He told us he is a devout Catholic.

[Bean Counter]

[elmer fudd]

I'm not sure even that would do it. To a lot of leftists and democrats, Stalin was merely doing what had to be done. You have to break about 40 million eggs to make a Utopian omelet after all.

Hitler on the other hand, well he's the epitome of all evil. Pol Pot somehow doesn't get a pass either despite the fact that he basically had the same aims and methods as Stalin.

[Arkansas Toothpick]

I really don’t see what the big deal is. So there’s a statue of Lenin out front; don’t overreact to what is essentially nothing but a kooky statement of chic.

[BBell]

[BBell]

You don't have that kind of muscle

[BBell]

How about Soviet kitsch(see post 26)

[JimC214]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statues_of_Lenin this link tells where a lot of the statues are at. No surprises. Mostly liberal places.

[Pyro7480]

The gal is one of the quirkiest musicians out there. But she does look great in two of her music videos.

[weegee]

Statues of Lenin out front and if it is like other Red Square themed bars I’ve seen, vintage Stalin propaganda posters inside.

Replace Lenin with Hitler or Robert Byrd in his klan hood and see how well your defense flies.

[weegee]

Wasn't she in AC/DC?

[BBell]

Real women have curves

[reagan_fanatic]

No doubt.

[Pyro7480]

Real women have curves

Did you mean that as a compliment or a criticism towards Regina?

The only drawback to her is that, like most of her peers, she's a lib.

You'd think those who are of Russian Jewish decent would know better.

Anyway, here's a flattering close-up of her:

[Ignatz]

"The former were exportable."

The latter had to be consumed in-country, eh? ;->

[BBell]

A compliment of course. I tire of the shapeless females that dominate pop culture. It's not as bad as it used to be. Jennifer Lopez made curves more acceptable.

I did not Know Regina was a lib but I guess that should be expected. You would think that being born a Jew in the Soviet Union and living there your first 9 years would make you less of a lib. I wonder how her parents think.

[BBell]