Posted on 12/08/2013 9:56:47 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Anti-government protesters have toppled the statue of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin in central Kiev amid huge protests gripping Ukraine.
A group of protesters dragged down and decapitated the landmark statue Sunday evening after hundreds of thousands of others took to the streets to denounce the government's move away from Europe and toward Moscow.
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I’s hard to believe there still WAS a Lenin statue there.
Kewl, now if we could get them to do it in Seattle...
Kiev is toppling communists and we are electing them!
Personally, I see this as progress.
Beautiful site.
I’m sure the statue is on the way to Seattle as we speak.
Uggh, Beautiful SIGHT!
I know, right?
I thought this was a throwback thread from 1943 or sumpthin...
Portland might need one.
Years ago I once saw a Marx statue in Eastern Europe where someone had spray-painted his crotch yellow.
I thought that was even better than pulling it down.
Ridicule is a two edged sword. Need to start using Alinsky’s tactics against them.
“Today, they fall on their knees in front of the president of Russia and surrender us to the customs union,” Mr. Tyagnibok said. “We will struggle.”
He added: “We demand to make public what these secret negotiations were about. They bring us back tothe time of Stalinism. Is this 1937?”
The Ukrainian and Russian governments have forcefully denied that there was even any discussion of the customs union between Mr. Yanukovich and Mr. Putin in Sochi on Friday. They say they were moving forward on other broad agreements involving trade and energy issues, but did not sign anything."...................Kiev Teems With Pro-Europe Protesters as Thousands More Gather
Very nice...
Gonna make some Democrats sad
You can’t ask those people to go back to slavery, they want no part of it. While over here, we have a whole class or people who are rushing toward it like it’s something wonderful. Free stuff, and all you have to do is sell your soul....and then the free stuff ends.
That photo posted below is from St. Petersburg, where someone blew a hole in his butt. Vilnius cut their Lenin statue off at the knees (there was a bar there that also had a Lenin statue wearing makeup and a dress).
and the chains are snapped shut.
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