Bomb blows hole in Lenin Statue (vandals give Lenin a second hole)

BBC ^ | 1st April | BBC

[propertius]

One of Russia's most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear.

The bronze statue, in the city of St Petersburg, was badly damaged before dawn on Wednesday, when the blast blew a hole in Lenin's coat. No-one was hurt in the attack, the motive for which was unknown.

The statue, outside the Finland Station, marks the Bolshevik leader's return from exile in April 1917.

"Today at 0430 [0030 GMT] there was an explosion at the Lenin monument at the Finland Station in the city centre," a spokesman for the Saint Petersburg branch of the Russian emergency situations ministry told the AFP news agency.

[propertius]

Best April Fools' Say stunt yet... (and completely true -- check out the hysterical picture). Oh the indignity!

[rabscuttle385]

LOL

[Constitution Day]

LMAO!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Just heartbreaking.

[Constitution Day]

LMAO! I always knew Commies were full of hot air, but this blowout is a little much!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

LOL! Great!

[Lorica]

Is the BBC playing an April Fool’s joke? Or is this really true?

Either way - ROFL, and a great candidate for “Caption this Photo”.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Tore him a new one they did!

[PzLdr]

Now THAT’S Socialist Realism! Lenin has always been a larger than life AS*HOLE!

[ArrogantBustard]

PWN3D

[Disambiguator]

Now someone in Seattle needs to do the same thing.

[WildcatClan]

LOL! The article said, ‘his coat’. He blowed up real good.

[bgill]

Someone pulled his finger.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

He looks like a flasher from behind.

[sniper63]

A fitting Icon for world Socialism. All will take it in the rear and like it.

[ArrogantBustard]

It looks like they put a shaped charge on the front of the statue ... and blew it out his @$$.

[SantosLHalper]

Just big enough for Obama’s head.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://www.mochinet.com/poets/service/index.cgi?ListTitles=Bar-Room%20Ballads&Poem=18

The Ballad of Lenin’s Tomb

And there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign,
And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine;
And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay;
And there he sleeps and calm he keeps his watch and ward for aye.
Yet if you pass that frame of glass, peer closely at his phiz,
So stern and firm it mocks the worm, it looks like wax . . . and is.
They tell you he’s a mummy - don’t you make that bright mistake:
I tell you - he’s a dummy; aye, a fiction and a fake.

[1rudeboy]

Drunken Balts at it again. ;)

[Hegemony Cricket]