Majority opinion needed on whether or not to bury Lenin - Putin

Interfax ^ | 08 February 2006

[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.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://www.mochinet.com/poets/service/index.cgi

Above URL has most of his poems and ballads.
great search function.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I wasn't trying to take a swipe at you. ;)

Just pointing out that Gazprom will continue to be 51% held by the Russian state, and a certain percentage of it will be open to other investors, including overseas investors more than in the past, but with 51% of the voting stock in their hands, Putin and Co. run the show no matter what and have final say on all matters.

[Fitzcarraldo]

I'm advising my Russian relatives to vote in favor of cremating the b*tard and scattering the ashes over Siberia.

[Thunder90]

Why doesn't Putin openly campagin for Lenin's buryal? If Putin hated his body so much, it would have been done a long time ago. Excuses from Putin do not cut it.

[Thunder90]

Putin will not bury lenin before his term is up. Putin promised that when he took power. And Ivanov will never bury him, as Ivanov longs for a return to Soviet glory more than Putin does.

[x5452]

The ownership breakdown has been posted here NUMEROUS times as has the press releases regarding liquidation of the remaining state percentages.

[x5452]

Stop spreading lies, Ivanov will never be president:

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.

[x5452]

Hey Siber is environmentally sensative! Poluting Siber is just plain wrong! ;p

LOL.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Hey Siber is environmentally sensative! Poluting Siber is just plain wrong! ;p

Then just flush Lenin's ashes down the sewer.

Same thing for Stalin.

[Thunder90]

The US could even pay for Lenin to be destroyed! I just want Putin to destroy Lenin's body now. At that time, I will have more trust in Putin.

[Thunder90]

Putin said the same thing....

[GarySpFc]

So far the best I've heard was show him the same treatment he showed the Romanov family.

That is too good for Lenin. Actually the man was lower than whale doodoo in real like, and we should make certain he returns to a similar place.

[GarySpFc]

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.

Don't confuse Mark with the facts. He believes Russian babies on the pointed end of bayonets, Russian women in whore houses, and Russian men in gulags are the only good Russians.

[wmileo]

"you believe the KGB shoots people on the streets daily for enjoyment."

Of course not, babushka. I believe they do it because they are just following orders.

[wmileo]

"I understand Al Gore is looking for a running mate."

Lenin wouldn't be caught dead with Al Gore.

[x5452]

(While we're at it I think it's high time a massive information campaign was launched to alert Russians that while Lenin was injured by a would-be assasin he was NOT assasinated [at least not in the traditional sense] and that he died either from syphilis or arteriosclerosis, though the notion he died slowly and painfully from the results of bullets left in his spine over the course of 6 years is somewhat comforting)

[Romanov]

Why would you want to do that to Siberia? Have them scattered over Berkeley or Santa Monica.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

LOL!

Burn him.

[GarySpFc]

Of course not, babushka. I believe they do it because they are just following orders.

Obviously, you rejoice in the deaths of Russians.

[Romanov]

You'd never get that proposal past the Georgians - they still honor him by making his childhood home a shrine and call him the "Great Leader" - but that's one of our new allies, right?