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- Chairboy, on 03/09/2008, -6/+148Looking at the picture, I was left with the impression that even as a disassembled statue, he was giving commands. "Row! Row harder! The dialectic commands it!"
- Sassmo, on 03/09/2008, -9/+142It's sad that things like that are destroyed. It shouldn't be out for public display, but it would be nice if they preserved it for a museum or something.
- superyounan1, on 03/09/2008, -6/+128Hello Putin and Medvedev
- Jade456, on 03/09/2008, -30/+127Talk about a picture worth a thousand words. The fate of communism.
- gannondork, on 03/09/2008, -2/+58If I had that statue in my front lawn my neighbors would simply be green with envy. Green I tell you.
- BTraina, on 03/09/2008, -8/+61Len-out
- WanCanCook, on 03/09/2008, -0/+48"The sculpture was a prop for a film about the farewell to Communism, which collapsed in Hungary two decades ago, producer Peter Miskolczy was quoted as saying by national news agency"
It's foam. No statues of Lenin have been harmed.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUK ... - Emnsta, on 03/09/2008, -11/+53Communism didn't fail in China, Communism failed the Chinese, and the tyrants still thrive.
- NightVortez, on 03/09/2008, -13/+54Eh say what you want about Socialism in Russia but it sure as hell advanced them from monarchy and wasn't the worst system in the world before Stalin..
Also to note, Russia or the Soviet Union were never Communist, they were Socialist. - bibfortuna, on 03/09/2008, -10/+48Dugg for not containing any "In Soviet Russia.." garbage.
- Cryptocracy, on 08/17/2008, -4/+40they're shipping it to New York to replace lady liberty! Lenin will be pointing at ground zero.
- nicku, on 03/09/2008, -6/+39Welcome to your new fake democracy.
- dagnome1984, on 03/09/2008, -4/+32That is why they shifted towards capitalism? Not saying that they represent capitalism, but their system shifted some what.
- ThePolak, on 03/09/2008, -8/+33Dug for using the movie title.
- mchugh22, on 03/09/2008, -5/+30Communism would be seen in a whole different light is Trotsky came to power instead of Stalin.
- barkus, on 03/09/2008, -4/+28I'm sure there are A LOT of similar statues in Russia.
- Supurcell, on 03/09/2008, -3/+24I think you're confusing Lenin with Stalin.
- fuzzybeard, on 03/09/2008, -2/+22I'd be seeing RED! :)
- Tyfon, on 03/09/2008, -4/+24he looks like hes trying to touch his toes.
- DeucesWild, on 03/09/2008, -1/+20The way it's strapped down and looks neat and orderly I don't think its going off to be destroyed. I mean if they wanted to do that they would have just broken it up with a bunch of jack hammers and carted it off in trucks.
- theclashrocker, on 03/09/2008, -8/+27There's never been communism, because every "communist" state has been a dictatorship instead. Its socialism not communism anyway.
- JoeDiggsIt, on 03/09/2008, -1/+19Now Im just really confused.
- nardo510, on 03/09/2008, -4/+22that not an excuse to destroy history. Good or bad he was part of history...
- kdamp, on 03/09/2008, -7/+25Engage!
- nextyoyoma, on 03/09/2008, -1/+18maybe they ARE taking it to a museum...else why wouldn't they just smash it?
- Hobbes24, on 03/09/2008, -6/+23and they say quartering has been abolished!
- Scaryclouds, on 03/09/2008, -2/+19Read about the cultural revolution and how things have changed since then. Then tell me communism has succeeded in China.
- superyounan1, on 03/09/2008, -0/+13explain it
- Viend, on 03/09/2008, -1/+13"Forward comrades! For the Motherland!"
*battle cry* - IronPwnage, on 03/09/2008, -4/+16"I want to go that way!"
- Zettabyte, on 03/09/2008, -2/+13Communism died when Stalin executed Trotsky and his party.
- NightVortez, on 03/09/2008, -1/+12Those jokes are funny when they make sense, which is never on digg it seems.
- mempko, on 03/09/2008, -12/+22And it is incredibly successful in the Nordic and northern European countries.
- ComradeLenin, on 03/09/2008, -4/+14What you must understand is that all the Socialist nations so far have gone about it in a way called "war communism". Russia was never meant to be that way, it was like that because of WW1and then WW2. True Communists like myself believe that Workers councils in every workplace should make up the government, not one big council at a national level. That was the Russian 1920's "state of emergency" government structure which never got changed.
- hardwickj, on 03/09/2008, -6/+15Someone please inform me as to why this "In Soviet Russia..." comment is hated so much on Digg? I find it hillarious! Ever since first hearing it, every time I hear it again I still always find it amusing.
- NightVortez, on 03/09/2008, -0/+9Like everything hated on digg they have been overdone and misused, the original was suppose to go like this..
In America, x does y to z, in Soviet Russia, z does y to x.
E.G.
In America, you can always find a party, in Soviet Russia party always finds you.
or
In America, you watch television. In Soviet Russia, television watches you.
It's suppose to comment on the overly totalitarian state of the Soviet Union, it could work as a positive towards the Soviet Union too, but the problem most people have with it is that instead of having it actually make sense most people just rearrange words after Soviet Union and it turns out real stupid. - theclashrocker, on 03/09/2008, -1/+10In reality there has never been socialism or communism; in the true essence of the theory. It has always been dictatorships. Don't think you'll ever have either, because of power hungry people. That's why "communism will never work because people like to own stuff" -frank zappa
- marx2k, on 03/09/2008, -3/+12Dug for KNOWING that awesome movie
- NightVortez, on 03/09/2008, -2/+11Eh, could be just taking it to a different location or something, Lenin statues still seem to be all over Moscow and I've seen at least a couple in Saint Petersburg..
- katatoniq, on 03/09/2008, -1/+9so you don't want it on public display but you want it preserved to go in a museum?
a private museum then, huh? - adooga, on 03/09/2008, -3/+11You don't know who Lenin was, do you?
- endus, on 03/09/2008, -3/+11Communism suffers from the same fallacies that all utopian ideals suffer from. You cannot "reeducate" the greed out of man and it is a contradiction and a violation of basic human rights to try. The fact is, some people just don't wanna live that way, myself included. Any system which fails to safeguard against man's desire for excessive power and wealth (and of course our system is not doing such at hot job at the moment) is a system destined for failure. Libertarianism, in a strange way, shares some of the same flaws that communism has which is why I think very very hardcore libertarianism is just as infeasible as "true" communism. However, our system and others that share similar principals have done a way better job in advancing, promoting, and maintaining human rights than ANY of the supposedly "communist" systems have done.
Socialism also fails people in that it does not contain bloat and corruption and waste.
The perfect system may not even exist, but one such as communism which is so fundamentally naive to basic human nature is DEFINITELY not it. Will the human race grow past this garbage? Who knows, but it is infantile to suggest that such a system would work in the world we live in today. I mean...in a world where there are people cheering in the streets after the school shooting in Israel, where America can murder and kidnap tens or hundreds of thousands of people without a real explanation, where poverty and repression rages in countries in Africa and around the world, how can you expect such a system to really work. We're not there yet. Not even close. - twrife, on 03/09/2008, -0/+8wat
- desuexmachina, on 03/09/2008, -0/+8There's an excellent statue of Lenin in Seattle, an area called Freemont.
- pukiman, on 03/09/2008, -1/+9"Preved Putin"
fixed (guess only Russians will understand the joke. Bury me down). - chewties, on 03/09/2008, -0/+7i wonder if that will end up in the soviet statue park in lithuania.
- adooga, on 03/09/2008, -0/+7This is a statue of Lenin.
- RogueMountie, on 03/09/2008, -0/+7Quiet, you capitalist pig!
- twinklyJesus, on 03/09/2008, -2/+8Biohazard:
It's been going on since 1932 here. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his "New Deal" was a quantum leap into socialism for the US. - Dundasbro, on 03/09/2008, -2/+8Well Lenin didn't actually have a presumption of greatness, at least in relation to statues. He didn't want all of this, Stalin put it in and made him almost a godlike figure after his death, contrary to Lenin's wishes.
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