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Bomb blows hole in Lenin Statue (vandals give Lenin a second hole)
BBC ^
| 1st April
| BBC
Posted on 04/01/2009 6:29:52 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 20milliondead; aprilfoolsday; bioya; communismkills; communists; holes; lenin; petersburg; russia; secondhole; sovietunion; ussr
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Best April Fools' Say stunt yet... (and completely true -- check out the hysterical picture). Oh the indignity!
To: Bokababe; bamahead
LOL
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:31:53 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
To: propertius
To: propertius
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:34:12 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: dighton; martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; Lee'sGhost; Rebelbase; Travis T. OJustice
LMAO! I always knew Commies were full of hot air, but this blowout is a little much!
To: propertius
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:34:50 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
("The smallest minority on earth is the 'individual'." ~ Rush Limbaugh)
To: Constitution Day
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”.
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:35:08 AM PDT
by
Lorica
To: propertius
Tore him a new one they did!
To: propertius
Now THAT’S Socialist Realism! Lenin has always been a larger than life AS*HOLE!
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:35:53 AM PDT
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: rabscuttle385
PWN3D
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:35:53 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: propertius
Now someone in Seattle needs to do the same thing.
To: rabscuttle385
LOL! The article said, ‘his coat’. He blowed up real good.
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:36:23 AM PDT
by
WildcatClan
(Iam fimus mos ledo ventus apparatus)
To: propertius
Someone pulled his finger.
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:36:29 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: propertius
He looks like a flasher from behind.
To: rabscuttle385
A fitting Icon for world Socialism. All will take it in the rear and like it.
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:37:03 AM PDT
by
sniper63
(Silent and stealthy - one shot - one kill)
To: WildcatClan
It looks like they put a shaped charge on the front of the statue ... and blew it out his @$$.
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:38:27 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: sniper63
Just big enough for Obama’s head.
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:38:39 AM PDT
by
SantosLHalper
(I am the World that hides the Universal secret of All time.)
To: propertius
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.
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:38:55 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?), Thug Washington Joker!)
To: Toddsterpatriot
Drunken Balts at it again. ;)
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posted on
04/01/2009 6:38:56 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: propertius
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