They’ve actually got a statue of Lenin there?
YEP! Freemont area of Seattle. And they are damn proud of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin_(Seattle)
A Lenin statue in Seattle?
Hell,why not go all the way and put up one of Pol Pot or Stalin?
Or get a bunch of Left wing radicals to storm City Hall,trash the crap out of it and then,in defense of their actions,say,”The Lenin statue made me do it.All power to the Vanguard Party”.