Posted on 11/05/2022 2:21:56 PM PDT by Cronos
Reminds me of the one in Seattle
Meanwhile we have a Lenin statue in the good ol’ USA. But the news says today we must get outraged by what’s happening on the other side of the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin_(Seattle)
Did you erect a bust of Lenin in your front yard?
Putin could have raised a statue of Peter the Great, or Ivan the Terrible, or even Alexei the O.K., but no, he has to put up the statue of the destroyer of Russia. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but I wish he were Putin Onda Ritz rather than Putin Uppa Statue.
The one in ny was originally commissioned by the U.S.S.R., but the socialist state’s dismantling in 1989 prohibited it from going on display overseas. Red Square, built in that same year, proved a suitable home. Bowery Boogie says Red Square developers Michael Rosen and Michael Shaoul “reportedly found it trashed in a backyard just outside Moscow and installed it five years later” in 1994.
When I was in high school in the 70's, one of my teachers told a story about visiting Moscow a few years before (probably as a college student) and visiting Lenin's tomb. My teacher was kind of a young, laid back hippie type (probably more so before he became a teacher) and he walked past Lenin's glass case with his hands in his pockets and loudly chewing gum. The guard on duty whacked him on the back of his head and knocked the gum clean out of his mouth.
Proper use of English (albeit of French origin) means it was NOT a “coup” but a “revolution”. Coups happen in hours or a few days. What happened in 2014 took more than 3 months.
It also makes an excellent toilet for pigeons.
“Did you erect a bust of Lenin in your front yard?”
No, but I might in Davos.
The Statue of Lenin is a 16 ft (5 m) bronze statue of Russian Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It was created by Bulgarian-born Slovak sculptor Emil Venkov and initially put on display in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1988, the year before the Velvet Revolution. After the dissolution of the USSR, a wave of de-Leninization brought about fall of many monuments in the former Soviet sphere. In 1993, the statue was bought by an American who had found it lying in a scrapyard. He brought it home with him to Washington State but died before he could carry out his plans for formally displaying it.
Since 1995, the statue has been held in trust waiting for a buyer, standing on temporary display for the last 27 years on a prominent street corner in Fremont.
That’s quite different from Putin erecting statues to the communist leader in territory he conquered in Ukraine
Great! Another target for the Ukrainians.
#F Lenin
Murdering scum ( like a lot of Russians)
And us Americans should remember that when some try to tell us that Russia is "different now".
No, it really isn't. Not in terms of how it acts towards the rest of the world, and its own people, for that matter.
Lay a HIMARS strike on the spot
Why would a retired KGB agent want to put up a statue to Lenin, and he does it while invading his European neighbors and threatening to nuke America?
Ours must appear confused, too. We have, or had, plenty of statues to Civil War generals, all over. Maybe Lenin is General Lee.
But you love Lenin. Only Nazis hate Communists. Got it Marcel.
We get it, Marcel. You love Lenin.
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Seattle?
“ They aren’t about religion. That’s just propaganda to get western conservatives fooled”
Yes, this is correct.
They’ve fed the counter culture freak culture revolution for more than half a century.
They knew and know it’s hurts the US.
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