Posted on 11/06/2022 6:41:18 AM PST by lodi90
Moscow’s occupying authorities in the southern Ukrainian city of Melitopol said Saturday they had brought back a statue of Lenin, seven years after it was taken down following Kyiv’s pro-EU revolution.
The Moscow-installed head of the Zaporizhzhia region, Vladimir Rogov, posted a photograph of workers in the city reinstating the tribute to the Bolshevik leader.
“After seven years the statue of Vladimir Lenin has returned to its place in Melitopol,” he said, adding that city authorities had taken it down in 2015.
Ukraine dismantled Lenin statues across the country after its 2014 revolution overthrew a Moscow-backed regime as part of its “de-communization drive.”
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Of course the Russians brought back out the soviet commies statues!
This is EXACTLY why we must stop Russia! Putin wants to recreate the old soviet union.
The horror of statues I disagree with!!!!
We need to immediately nuke Russia and give another trillion to Ukraine!!!
Alas, FR will still be a hive of people desperately promoting Putin’s neo-Soviet propaganda while urgently insisting they’re not taking a side. B-b-b-but the Sudetenland isn’t the U.K.’s business, blubbered the Chamberpots.
No nukes, no trillion. Just artillery, SAM’s, and ATGM’s. That should be plenty.
Exactly. They aren’t hiding it. Reagan called the Kremlin the “evil empire” for good reasons. MAGA-Leninists who have been duped need to wake up and smell the coffee: One party state fascist Russia is no friend of Americans.
Not our problem.
Europe can and should fund and equip any reaction they prefer.
Three, even four exclamation points!!
How’d they get it back from the Big Tekkies up in Washington State?
Do we need to spell it out for you? Do you really think the problem with Mein Kampf was killing the trees and spilling ink? The Soviet Union is back! Whether you believe Putin was egged on by U.S. foreign policy, or the Stalin-worshipping (no, literally!) KGB boss always had it in him, it’s sheer lunacy to pretend that a corrupt government is a legitimate basis to start bombing a nation and driving tanks into its capital.
Our old junk is smashing the pathetic Russian army to pieces. It’s staggering to read what ordnance we have destroyed in the last decade. Tens of thousands of MLRS rockets, etc. And of course all the stuff abandoned in Afghanistan. Had Ukraine had that gear they would have wiped the floor with Putin’s fake army months ago.
No fan of Zelensky, but it’s bad enough that Portland has a Lenin statue. Anyone who puts up a Lenin statue is a retard.
I’d even look funny at someone putting up a John Lennon statue
Ukrainians right to self determination and the like are natural allies to American MAGA. The globalists are great partners with Putin’s Russia for good reasons. It’s they that seek to destroy borders and enslave us to the Chinese Communist Party.
Just don’t put up a Yoko Ono statue. That would be beyond the pale.
It does sound like the Russians are getting ready to move in, or at least not planning on leaving.
Would have been better to put Stalin there. After all if Ukraine (and the Neocons) INSIST on ressurecting the Nazis in Ukraine, and even TRAINING the Nazis in Ukraine (in the case of the US), why shouldn’t Russia stick Ukraine’s worst nightmare back in their faces too - after all, two can play at that game.
You are welcome to believe whatever your wish. I simply disagree with how you see the situation.
I believe Putin is evil, but not a hardliner. Those surrounding Putin are both evil and hardliners.
Nor do I believe Putin wants to reestablish the Soviet Union.
And I do believe Putin's response was to the provocations of the globohomos and actions of NATO.
Li'l Z should have negotiated for peace before this ever turned into a war.
Yes!!!!!
I had to get in emotional synch with the FReeper I was responding too.
Statues are erected to honor the memory and legacy of the person imaged by the statue. Vladmir Ilyich Ulyanov's legacy is oppression, corruption, and murder. Anyone who puts up a Lenin statue is EVIL.
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