Lenin Returns from the Dead (1 Viewer)

[neo o]

Lenin resurrected

Berlin: A huge Lenin statue is to be rescued from its woodland grave and reinstated in East Berlin.

The 20-metre statue once graced Lenin Square, now United Nations Square, but was dragged off its pedestal under tight police guard 14 years ago. It was then cut into 125 pieces and buried in woods on the edge of the city.

But so-called ostalgie hunters - those wistful for the communist era - recently discovered the site and have been chiselling bits from its red granite surface as souvenirs. Attempts to protect the statue by covering it in a layer of sand only brought more attention from souvenir-hunters.

Left-wing city councillors in Berlin have now intervened to save what they call an "important part of the city's cultural heritage".

"This former memorial should not end up as a wreck on a rubbish dump," said Ingeborg Junge-Reyer, a Berlin Social Democrat senator, who rejected plans for the statue to be ground down and used as building material.

Plans to re-enstate a statue of Hitler in Western Berlin have so far met with stiff opposition.

 

[Iron]

At Nuremburg, Goering predicted that people would erect statues of him about now.
Meanwhile, Moscow is working on a new Stalin statue I tink.

 

[Comrade nathan]

In a Wikipedia article it metions that there has been a few towns in the former USSR who have erected statues of Lenin.

In a Russian survey Lenin was most popular man, followed by Peter the Great and Stalin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statues_of_Lenin

 

[Meldrum]

Don't forget Stalin world (http://www.balticsww.com/stalin_world.htm)

 

[azzie]

im hanging out for a big statue of Tito shaking hands with Karl Marx in Zagreb.
dont think that will happen for another 100 years.

 

[Meldrum]

I'm waiting for one in Australia.

May I firstly volunteer my backyard...

 

[SashatheMan]

arent u asian. why would you want a statue of lenin/stalin

 

[withoutaface]

Because he's a filthy red.