Replacement head being prepared. (What's up with despots and their giant statues of themselves?)
Posted on 08/10/2009 2:13:48 PM PDT by lizol
Lenin statue collapses, kills man in Belarus
MINSK, Belarus — A massive statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin collapsed on a man who was hanging from it Monday, killing him on the spot, authorities said.
The 21-year-old man was drunk when he climbed onto the five-meter (16-foot)-high plaster monument and hung from its arm, the Emergency Situations ministry said. It then broke into pieces and he was crushed.
The statue in the southeastern Belarus town of Uvarovichi was built in 1939.
"The monument's heavy head tumbled on him," said Nataliya Bolbas, a principal at a school in Uvarovichi facing the monument.
President Alexander Lukashenko is a staunch admirer of the Soviet Union, and the nation still has numerous Soviet-era monuments to the revolutionary leader.
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Communism kills, for reals.
The heavy hand of Marxist-Leninism claims another victim. (Admittedly a Darwin-award candidate, but still, a victim of heavy-handed Marxism.)
If Commies built it, it will not stand for long.
Hold muh vodka bump!
Where’s the Irony alert?
lol!
Lenin...
still killing folks even from beyond the grave...
dang, just dang...
Darn!....I thought this was the statue in Fremont...nevermind!
Finally, the last victim of Lenin.
One more victim.
In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him.
**Dude had been drinking and only got out “TIM” from the word TIMBER before it fell and crushed him. The cactus got it’s revenge.
While in Yerevan 1997, they had just torn down a huge iron statue of Lenin.
“The Ballad of Lenin’s Tomb” by Robert Service.
http://www.mochinet.com/poets/service/index.cgi?ListTitles=Bar-Room%20Ballads&Poem=18
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.
This eye beheld the bloody bomb that bashed him on the bean.
I heard the crash, I saw the flash, yet . . . there he lies serene.
And by the roar that rocked the Tomb I ask: how could that be?
But if you doubt that deed of doom, just go yourself and see.
You think I’m mad, or drunk, or both . . . Well, I don’t care a damn:
I tell you this: their Lenin is a waxen, show-case SHAM.
Marxism-Leninism ruins the life of everyone who holds on to it. It made sluggards out of the slavs and created drunkards rather than the deviceful, proletariats rather than productivity. Yet the liberal’s march towards marxism still proceeds...
You can’t make this stuff up.
in the words of Major Frank Burns: “Better Dead than Red”
You know those Liberal Commies, they have a knack for killing...
That ain’t Lenin — that’s an image of the guy in the WH.
“That ain’t Lenin — that’s an image of the guy in the WH.”
Really? All communists look alike to me.
(Seriously, my point was Obama is akin to Lenin, an allusion to the many-headed hydra of communist despots.)
Where's a Stinger when we need it??
Darwin-sky award
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