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Majority opinion needed on whether or not to bury Lenin - Putin
Interfax ^ | 08 February 2006

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: deadcommiesociety; hermeticallysealed; lenin; putin; russia; sovietunion
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Personally I still think that a 'get your photo with lenin' road tour would be an economic success, and the guy should be removed from Red Square where he's just creepy.

Still Putin's right the will of the people should be done.

1 posted on 02/08/2006 11:04:20 AM PST by x5452
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To: jb6; GarySpFc; Romanov; Lukasz

More recently updated article on what Putin said with regard to Lenin.


2 posted on 02/08/2006 11:05:10 AM PST by x5452
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To: x5452

Why should they bury lenin?

Because he is dead.


3 posted on 02/08/2006 11:07:06 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: x5452

Just offer it for sale on ebay.


4 posted on 02/08/2006 11:07:45 AM PST by wmileo
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To: sgtbono2002

As are his evil and stupid ideas (In Russia at least.)


5 posted on 02/08/2006 11:08:19 AM PST by x5452
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To: x5452

How about Hillary's backyard?


6 posted on 02/08/2006 11:09:15 AM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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Poor Lenin! All dressed up and nowhere to go.


7 posted on 02/08/2006 11:09:30 AM PST by D.P.Roberts
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Riiight . Putin is taking russia back to authoritarian rule.
8 posted on 02/08/2006 11:09:50 AM PST by MARKUSPRIME
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They should have some museum put him under a glass doorstep and offer the public to walk on his grave.


9 posted on 02/08/2006 11:09:51 AM PST by x5452
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Sure sure, democratically elected leaders insisting the people's will be done, all utterly authoritarian.


10 posted on 02/08/2006 11:10:26 AM PST by x5452
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Bury Lenin and Putin.
11 posted on 02/08/2006 11:12:00 AM PST by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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He should get the same burial he gave the Romanovs.

Hacked into pieces and throw down a well.

12 posted on 02/08/2006 11:12:50 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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Just offer it for sale on ebay.

Wouldn't that be ironic!

13 posted on 02/08/2006 11:13:31 AM PST by bikepacker67 (Islam was born of Hagar the whore.)
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To: LIConFem

DITTO


14 posted on 02/08/2006 11:14:32 AM PST by Tarkin (Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito...one more to go)
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To: x5452

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.


15 posted on 02/08/2006 11:14:43 AM PST by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: x5452

He's DEAD, Jim!
16 posted on 02/08/2006 11:15:18 AM PST by Obadiah
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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.


17 posted on 02/08/2006 11:16:00 AM PST by Cyclopean Squid (Moderates do not make history)
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(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. )


18 posted on 02/08/2006 11:16:43 AM PST by x5452
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Lenin should lay in the lobby of the DNC HQ.


19 posted on 02/08/2006 11:17:32 AM PST by byteback
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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).


20 posted on 02/08/2006 11:18:39 AM PST by x5452
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