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.
(There's rumors of Bush forcing a third term also but I don't beleive those wacko publications either)
1. Name the seized assets.
2. Russia's dealings with Iran have been closely related with our own and Bush supports the brunt of them. Russia's dealings with China are visibly an attempt to learn more about a future enemy, Russia has even recently arrested chinese spies in their military, but you plainly beleive everything MSNBC tells you on the matter.
3. I already posted the article in another thread. Ivanov doesn't even like his current position and is not interested in the burden of any additional responsibilities.
4. Without Russia the west may very well have lost WWII. Certainly if they had won it would have involved making cities in Euroe meet the fate Hiroshima did.
5. While in Russia did you ever ask folks what they think of their president?
Also:
Vice Premier Ivanov says he won't run for higher office
20:29 | 26/ 01/ 2006
YEREVAN, January 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Thursday that he was not considering running for a higher office in the near future, refuting wide-spread rumors that he was seeking a higher post in the government.
"My appointment to the post of vice premier has burdened me with additional tasks. I believe that, under these conditions, it would be incorrect to opt for anything else," Ivanov, who is also Russia's Defense Minister, told a news conference.
ALSO:
Jan 26 2006 6:30PM
Ivanov vows punishment for military hazing in Chelyabinsk
YEREVAN. Jan 26 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said that the alleged hazing incident involving servicemen in Chelyabinsk will be thoroughly investigated and all those guilty will be punished.
"The head of the general staff has been ordered to investigate the incident. If cases of hazing are discovered, all the guilty will be punished," Ivanov told journalists in Yerevan on Thursday.
A topless Hildabeast? That would have to be rated X for extreme violence towards the human retina.
I'll buy a ticket to see that!
Given the criminal plague he unleashed on the 20th century, I would say that refusing to honor his final wishes is the first thing they should do.
How many of Communism's victims had THEIR final wishes honored?
I say, set up his corpse as a target game in a traveling carnival.
Ha! Great! I love Service. Back when poetry was worth reading.
Lenin has caused enough misery, death, murder, terror and strife....lets get rid of his miserable remains once and for all.
AvtoVAZ,Yukos, LUKoil, Norilsk Nickel,Media-Most,Tyumen oil, Gazprom....to name a few I have read about.
Give me a break russia has just now began to try and "work" if thats what you call it with the US over Iran and thats because europe and the US both were on the same side of this issue and put pressure on russia. Russia has been arming Iran and syria for years as well as north korea. Russia arms china not out of wanting to see the enemies ins and out. They do this like they do all their proxy dealing and its to buffer and blunt the US position.Yes they have caught a few spies for china but I know for a fact that the majority of the Duma hates the US and our position in the world. The russian government can go to hell the world would be better off without them.
He's dead. His body has already been a tourist trap for 80+ years. Mutilating him further will solve nothing. Just put him in an unmarked grave somewhere, or better yet cremate him and scatter his ashes in some river like they did with Hitler.
Lenin was a naive idealist who saw his dreams of a new world flounder. He is a pitiful figure, a brilliant revolutionary and inept leader. He was outmaneuvred by Stalin, isolated and ultimately turned into a political prop. Destroying his waxen remains, held together with spit and make-up, would be a hollow gesture after all his ideas were exposed as wrong and all his monuments toppled.
I understand Al Gore is looking for a running mate.
Is he really dead, Jim?
The election will be as fixed as every other election in countries like Russia and Iran.
Final results in:
Keep Lenin in glass coffin on display = 110% of vote
No need to bury. Just melt the wax down and let people buy their own little bit of history with a former Lenin corpse candle.
So far the best I've heard was show him the same treatment he showed the Romanov family.
Perhaps the still living relatives of the Romanovs should be asked as to what fate his remains should meet.
You've read wrong.
Gazprom for instance is less that 37% state owned and even that portion is being liquidated as of January 1.
Bush has recently announced numerous coperative efforts with Russia regarding energy and intelligence. It's good that he's not as prone to heeding MSM propaganda as you are.
The russian government calls the shots when it comes to energy,banking, and the media.Thats a fact comrade. ;)
Good one! But Gore would not want a running mate that appeared so animated in comparison.. :^)
If it's a fact why don't you run along and find some evidence. The only fact here is that you refuse to read, and refuse to understand the position even the president has taken with regard to Russia.
Actually about the only running mate who COULD make gore appear lively and engaging would be Lenin...
And it's still be an aweful close contest as to which was lively or engaging.
(Heck Lenin already looks for life like!)
Its 51%, comrade.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2006/nf20060113_8346_db039.htm
"Gazprom, after all, isn't just any company. With hydrocarbon reserves equivalent to 119 billion barrels of oil and a market capitalization of $150 billion, Gazprom, which is 51% state-owned, is the world's largest listed energy company in terms of reserves and the biggest company in emerging markets by capitalization. Yet thanks to legal restrictions imposed by the Russian government in 1997, international investors couldn't get their hands on it."
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