Hrumph...same pose in both pictures. Doesn't that guy ever smile?
Posted on 02/07/2006 3:23:43 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite
MOSCOW, February 7 (Itar-Tass) -- President Vladimir Putin does not support the idea to close the Red Square mausoleum and bury Vladimir Lenin’s body.
“I wish to find solutions, which would enjoy support by the majority of citizens and promote reconciliation and unity of the nation rather than a split,” Putin told the Spanish media.
“I visited [Francisco] Franco’s grave when I was in Spain in the middle of the 1990s. Opinions may differ, and there are two completely different things. I am against drawing any parallels between fascism and communism,” he said.
“Each ideology has its own notions of justice and problems, but it would be incorrect to match them,” he said. “Franco is a rather controversial personality, and there are different assessments of his role. But he was buried in a pantheon with all the honors.”
“Spanish people suffered a lot during the Civil War, and Russian citizens suffered equally or even more during the civil confrontation,” Putin said. “Nowadays, we should not provoke a split but promote unification and reconciliation with every step of ours.”
Step right up folks see the terror of the Western world. Just $5 bucks a view, sonny.l
Hrumph...same pose in both pictures. Doesn't that guy ever smile?
Hey Westlander, what say we ask if we can "entomb" Mrs. Mulhern right next to the dead communist ba$tard. She's already dead from the neck up. Twin commies!
Charge admission!
Yeah, there are some differences. The German fascists tended to put a 9mm in yer noggin. Commies liked the 9 X 18 Makarov.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky actually proposed taking Lenin on tour and charging admission.
Who says the Russians don't get capitalism. :)
utin leaves media guessing where he stands on Lenin tomb issue
19:22 | 07/ 02/ 2006
MOSCOW, February 7 (RIA Novosti) - Vladimir Putin said Tuesday he would try to resolve the controversial issue of reburying communist leader Vladimir Lenin without triggering a split in society, but refrained from revealing his own position on the matter.
Talking to Spanish reporters ahead of an official visit to Spain, which starts Wednesday, Putin said, "I believe Russian citizens suffered internecine strife and civil confrontation as much as or even more than Spaniards did during the Civil War. So today, instead of fostering a rift, we should work... toward [national] reunification and reconciliation."
The removal of Lenin's mummified body from the mausoleum on Red Square, where it has been on display since the Bolshevik leader's death in 1924, has been the subject of heated political debates in post-Soviet Russia. Some have argued Lenin should be laid to rest at a regular cemetery. Others, primarily neo-communists, have insisted that the structure remain his final resting place.
Putin = Stalinist
Ping
Pootie poot will not bury his idol.
" I am against drawing any parallels between fascism and communism,”"
He left out liberals. They are of the same line.
"president could not persuade Russians to remove the Soviet Union's founder from his place of honor,"
How does a Viet Nam vet who saw his comrades killed by communists come to call Lenins tomb a "place of honor"?
Gary, shouldnt you be on Free Lunch Republic?
When you go back to your socialist handlers, smack them for not teaching you better english. Again, you make the usual fool or yourself, shilling as always, insulting as you are. Gary didn't say he honored Lenin or his memorial honorable. It is an American expression, one your handlers are obviously to stupid to know or pass on to you.
The resting place of a person and one where people come to pay there respects, is called the person's place of honor. Gads, you shills are to pathetic.
Guess old Putin likes the smell of Lenin in the morning...
He could use a makeover. We'll call it, "Queer Eye for the Dead Guy."
It's called 42% of the population is still against this. Personally it should be burned on Red Square in public, but few elected politicians are going to do something that unpopular.
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Putin is just looking for excuses to not bury his idol.
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