highly offensive and infuriating statue in fremont, seattle, wa

Disgraceful!

ok...I'm ignorant...what's this all about? Just curious, that's all

That's a statue of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, aka Lenin.

You know, leader of the godless Bolshevik Revolution, persecutor and murderer of Christians, including Czar Nicholas II and his family.

oh my gosh....

I feel retarded..

Take a sledgehammer to it. Now. Maybe a blowtorch.

Hoonbaba said:

oh my gosh....

I feel retarded..

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You needn't feel that way.

I recognized the statue right away, for one thing, because I lived in Russia for a short while and saw about a zillion of those monstrosities in person.

Yes, they're still there, especially out in the backwaters, where folks don't have the money to get rid of them and some of the old fart die-hard reds would get upset if they tried.

In my wife's hometown of Volgograd (the former Stalingrad), I counted 9 large statues of Lenin, and a big statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky outside the police station.

Dzerzhinsky was the head of Lenin's political police, the dreaded Cheka.

wow....so it must've been a lot like seeing pictures or statues of Kim Il Sung or Kim Jong Il in N. Korea..... my gosh....horrible...

While we're on this subject, anyone know where I can get any anti-Bolshevism/anti-communism merchandise?

Well, they can be useful. The steps to the Marx monument, opposite to the Bolshoi Theatre, are used today by skateboarders and bikers

ExOrienteLux said:

Take a sledgehammer to it. Now. Maybe a blowtorch.

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I'd like to have a picture of my dog Oliver lifting his leg on that statue!

Hoonbaba said:

oh my gosh....

I feel retarded..

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Don't feel retarded. I recognized it instantly because I have a degree in Central European History and Russian History has alot to do with German History and thus I have studied quite a bit of it.

Michael the Iconographer said:

I'd like to have a picture of my dog Oliver lifting his leg on that statue!

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Photoshop is your friend

Ugh. I'd like to fly up to Washington so I can give that thing a fresh coat of spray paint...

Who owns the land it is on?

Matrona said:

Ugh. I'd like to fly up to Washington so I can give that thing a fresh coat of spray paint...

Who owns the land it is on?

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probably the same land where they don't allow the ten commandments being displayed, along with a nativity scene being taken down.....

Is that on Public land?

I think it's on private land. It was in front of a bakery or an art gallery or something. I can see a piece of the Taco Del Mar sign in the corner of the picture.

Seattle is a very lefty city, and the area the statue is in (Fremont) even more so. Go to the Fremont market which is an outdoor flea market on the weekends and you can find tie dye t-shirts, bong accessories, and the like. I think you get the idea. I would take it seriously, but I believe the people who pass the statue of Satan, er uh I mean Lenin, have no idea what he is all about.

ExOrienteLux said:

While we're on this subject, anyone know where I can get any anti-Bolshevism/anti-communism merchandise?

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I have looked for it (I'm desperate to find an anti-communist tshirt to wear to my History class), but most of the anti-communist organizations still around are seriously anti-semitic.

Rilian said:

I think it's on private land. It was in front of a bakery or an art gallery or something. I can see a piece of the Taco Del Mar sign in the corner of the picture.

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Okay. I am just wondering whose lawyers are going to be chasing me after I cut that thing's head off...

not sure why they would have a statue like that in Noth America...wierd.....I don't agree with it at all.....but really this is a secular world.......don't be suprised if this kind of stuff happens......