Pink Lenin
Some Russian youngsters decided that old Lenin monuments scattered across the Russian cities look gray and dull and decided to add some color to them, here is one example of more revived Lenin monument.
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Pretty in pink.
Yes. The art of the state and the art of the individual artist are equal!
Lenin is a piece of crap and it’s good to see Russian youngsters understand acknowledge that fact. Good work guys.
Sarah, don’t use my name, try to invent your own.
You’re a bastard. Go kill yourself at the wall.
Shut your hole abramobitch.
What does the writing at the bottom say?
This = ???
I says exactly what you see. No more, no less.
Now if ESTONIAN kids had done this, I bet there would be a different reaction.
I disagree. Since end of 80s there are no many people who give a shit about Lenin’s statues. Well… I’m not taking into account elder people (60+). The majority opinion (as far as I can sense) is that Lenin was a bastard and the main one to blame in all the disasters after 1917. Rare remaining statues are considered as historical artifacts rather than true glorification items. Should anyone do anything to Lenin statues (and other statues alike) - be it Estonians or not Estonians doesn’t really matter - there would be no any public outcry. All FSU republics (including Russia) did actually scrap most of them time ago (not sure about Belorussia - never been there).
Monuments to fallen soldiers are completely different thing. Don’t want to explore this subject because it usually leads to endless and equally useless discussion.
You actually sense it all wrong. Not a single monument to Lenin was scrapped in Russia. There are hundreds of streets, avenues and regions named after him. There are hundreds of institutions and offices named after him. There are a least two cities bearing his name (Ulyanovsk and Leninsk). There’s also a Leningradskaya Oblast. And so on. After the events of 1991 only a couple of streets in Moscow were renamed and the city Leningrad was renamed St. Petersburg.
As for public opinion, you don’t know a shit either.
According to various public polls, 55-70% of respondents rate Lenin positively. Around 10-15% don’t have an opinion.
Good job ! Fuck lenin !
Go fuck yourself first.
It was harsh…
Anyway, then I also did small research - ok, you are somewhat right. Country-wide your assessment of the situation is more accurate. My senses do not go beyond SPb where I live. Here the picture is a little bit different. Poll by Channel 5: 62% negative, 23% positive, 15% don’t care.
Regarding scrapped monuments in SPb: http://www.newizv.ru/print/64779
One of country-wide polls: http://www.levada.ru/press/2005042100.html
In any case I don’t remember any noise when they were scrapping his statues in Baltics, Ukraine, etc.
Well, the fact that someone pours out some paint on the monument means almost nothing. It just means that there are a couple of angry jerks and that’s all…
Here’s one of the polls that I took infomation from:
http://bd.fom.ru/report/map/projects/dominant/803_127/1613_153/6188_163/d031513
There were a couple of others as well. I took an average value and wrote it here.
The fact that Lenin is more likely to be positively rated by older generations is absolutely logical. Nowadays, with so much brainwashing and anti-Soviet material going out from everywhere I wonder why so many young people still rank Lenin so high.
As for Channel 5. Is it a Ukranian channel? Ukraine is extremely anti-Russian nowadays. No wonder they have such results there. Read this!!: http://www.km.ru/magazin/view.asp?id=470FEEFC7E57440785A2C81C28101627&idrubr=3A76693B8E0711D3A90A00C0F0494FCA
Channel 5 is St.Pet channel. I think it’s the second channel after Channel 1 (ORT) in meter range - it’s federal now. I’m half Russian - half Ukranian. Your link (the second, at http://www.km... would be fun if it wasn’t so sad.
“Not a single monument to Lenin was scrapped in Russia.”
Oh, God, how much billshit it’s possible to find on Internet these days. Even Wikipedia disagrees with you:
“With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, many statues of Vladimir Lenin were torn down.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statues_of_Lenin
“bullshit”
Statues were torn down only in post-Soviet republics! Not a single was scrapped in Russia! Al right… Actually, maybe a single was scrapped. But, according to wikipedia, many new ones were also erected.
I think you are playing with words. Wikipedia says that SOME new ones have been erected, not “many”. Also, it says that “many remain”, which does not lead to the conclusion that “not a single one was scrapped”. If that had been the case, they would have written “all remain”, instead of “many remain”.
I don’t know how many Lenin statues have been taken down in Russia, but certainly more than one. In the city that I usually visit there is one single statue, and it’s a city of one million people. I don’t know how many statues they had before, but certatinly it must have been more than one.
Or maybe I’m making the wrong assumption? Maybe there always was just one Lenin statue in this city of 1 million people?
But in that case, what we are being told all the time about “many Lenin statues” is not correct. How about this statement, for example:
“Statues of Lenin, Stalin and Marx were on practically every corner of every town in the former Soviet Union.”
http://www.russia-travel.com/excursions/moscow/communists/
Every corner? And now I can find only one in a big city? And not a single one has been torn down?
Someone is excaggerating.
I’m sorry about “many” and “some”.
I think “many remain” corresponds to former Soviet republics. If talking about Russia, I’d say “almost all remain”.
One statue per city of 1 million is OK. Moscow has a population of more than 10 million, but there are, as far as I know, only two big monuments there. I’ve heard about a couple of small statues that were moved to other places or scrapped due to their bad condition.
Every big city has one big bronze statue of Lenin in the centre of the city. NOT A SINGLE big statue was removed in Russia. I don’t count all the small busts made of lime that are installed in schools, park, etc.
“Statues of Lenin, Stalin and Marx were on practically every corner of every town in the former Soviet Union.” - this is an exaggeration.
Ok, but I’m then actually a bit surprised, if Lenin statues were after all so far between even in Soviet times. I mean, Stockhom has 1 million inhabitants, and it has one statue of an old dictator king (Karl XIIth), just like a russian city of the same size has one statue of Lenin..
Also, I don’t really think statues mean much. What matters is how society is organized. You don’t change that by renaming streets or tearing down statues.
wich of the disasters after 1917 did you had in mind??
that people got food..?
that people got work..?
that USSR became supremarcy..?
technoligical advances on everything..?
oder wollen Sie Deutsch sprechen..??
HELL YEAH….What a disaster…
There were pluses and minuses. What I meant was:
- Civil war…
- Collectivisation (one can argue about it…)
- Industrialization (one can argue about it…)
- Stalin purges (again, one can argue about it…)
… but, whatever the pluses were, the cost was high…
…to my mind… It speaks little to those who are young - whose fathers, grandfarthers didn’t dye during those times; who don’t feel any connection…
I meant:
- civil war
- collectivization (one can argue about it…)
- industrialization (one can argue about it…)
- Stalin purges ‘37 (again, one can argue about it…)
… maybe that was all historically justified, but the cost was too high (too my mind). Young people don’t get it - no farthers, grandfathers lost - so, no real connection (i.e. no letters, stories are passed across - no feeling…) … too bad.
What the f…k is going on? This is the 3rd time I’m trying to post a response! Who is this dickhead who designed the site???
To “fromukrainewithlove”:
I meant:
- civil war;
- collectivization (one can argue about it…)
- industrialization (one can argue about it…)
- Stalin purges (again, one can argue about it…)
… there were pluses and minuses… but the cost was too high (too my mind)… young people don’t get it… no connection to farthers, granfarthers… no letters, stories, etc….
The little heart means a girl did this. I think it looks pretty cool.
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/7491/dotart2bcw8.jpg
No more communism for Russia ! Fuck lenin ! Fuck english government ! Fuck english queen !
This reminds me a bunch of monkeys in a zoo pissing onto a pole to mark their territory. No more, no less.
No, that would be you peeing in the comments section here. LOSER!
told ya… here is another monkey
Pink Lenin has made you gay.
Waddya know? The monkey can post messages! I hardly can understand the nonsense but evolution is truly an unbelievable thing!
Oh, the little puppy is peeing as high as he can! Oh!
He fell over and peed on himself! What a sad funny little puppy!
You’re projecting, Pros. You are doing exactly what you are
accusing the other monkeys of doing.
What we’re seeing here is the first attempt to make a logical deduction. There is still lots of prattle, which is probably typical for the newly discovered primates. But you can feel that something is going on in that funky little head.
Lenin=Devil!
I WANT USSR BACK!!! I MISS COMMUNISM!!!
I think Lenin would be pleased that someone called attention to his monument in this way. How often do people walk past and do not notice? Now they will see Lenin’s statue and perhaps reflect briefly, as we have.
Man, this is a bitter bitter bitter comments section of an awesome website.
I love the pictures here, all the bizarre curiosities, but then I go and look at comments on them and its just a bunch of ridiculously angry people.
Like the new style Lenin. What is with all these stupid comments? This is an awesome site like randomloser said. Keep the comments to the topic guys or keep away.
I don’t care about Lenin, but I find that disgusting. Vandalism and nothing more.
Thats fucked up.
I bet my ass if that would have happened in Estonia (do they even have any Lenin statues?), the russians would be mad-pissed, calling out ridiculous slogans that make no sense what so ever and are out of context(hitler and something to do with world domination, wtf).
Russians, so silly.
You can go to estonia and fuck with lenin statues
Emo kids - kultura
MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!
DON’T DO IT WITH THE GREAT LENIN!!!
RESPECT YOUR ON HISTORY!!!
This is the “liberty” that the former Soviet people want?
Right,if you want to give more fun to Lenin’s statue,DON’T PAINT PINK BALLS ON HIS HEAD!
A little bit of respect is good
If they don’t paint his face…
He was a great art apreciator,and this is the people’s art
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LONG LIVE CCCP AND COMMUNISM !!!
LONG LIVE LENIN
LONG LIVE MOTHER RUSSIA!
Polka dot!
Niiice!
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Imbrattare i monumenti è da vandali…altro che punk-arte!
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