First Soviet Bulb
This is how the first Soviet Russian bulbs looked liked. They had the Stalin and Lenin half-face cut as a glower and were considered to be a very classy present - the first of the series were presented to the delegates of Soviet parliament of 1935. Nowadays they are considered to be an awesome antique gadget and for sale in Moscow antique shops for around $2,000.
Lenin on the Ball
Lenin standing on the ball is an idea for the momument that was used widely in Soviet Russia. Actually, the ball symbolizes the Earth globe.
They say that when people type the word “Lenin” 50% typing it for the first time would type “Lening” with the letter “g” at the end, you can try doing it someday, when you’ll forget about this already - because if you try right now I bet you’ll type it correctly.
Some Videos 10
We just yesterday remembered the Lenin’s tomb - the “mausoleum” and now here is the video of some pranksters dressed as mummies and visiting their brother holy Mummy. It seems that Russian police was against that.
Project “Mausoleum”
There is an ancient tomb situated on the Red Square of Moscow, right in the centermost point of the city with a real mummy inside. Yes, it’s not ancient of course, it’s only 70 years old, but still there is a tomb and a mummy. A mummy of Lenin, the leader of the first Russian communists who lead the country to the revolution and broke out the Tsarist reign thus wanting to establish the freedom to all, like, poor people.
This is what every Soviet Russian kid was taught at school from his early age. The name of Lenin was considered the most sacred word, together with his depiction. If the schoolboy got as bold as, like, drawing some funny whiskers in the text-book for the Lenin’s portrait he could be severe punished, his parents summoned to school and then the special report could be sent to their job which could cause them being fired or even imprisoned. In other words everything concerning Lenin’s name was a holy cow.
Same way was about his tomb. This place was a real shrine for the multi-national people of Soviet Union. Hundred thousands people when came to Moscow just had to visit the so called “mausoleum” and to get a fast glance on the mummy of the Lenin lying under the bullet-proof thick glass. To do that people had to stand many hours in line through all the Red Square, but it was considered worth of this.
It’s interesting but even now, twenty years later after the Soviet Union started collapsing, the tomb is still at it’s place right on the Red Square and the mummy body of Lenin is still inside. And there are even still lines of visitors waiting for their turn to pay a visit to the Communist leader.
The tomb itself was build of the red stone which was mined only in one place in Russia, in the village Shoksha of Karelia, and is being highly estimated by the luxury architectural designers from all over the Europe. They order this stone even to Paris for some decorations, and so from this stone this Lenin’s mausoleum was built. First it was made of wood though, we’ve told about this in our “Lenin Tomb History” post looking like a stairway pyramid with a platform on top, which was used by all the Soviet Leaders to greet the Soviet People while on parade:
This modern look of this structure wasn’t born at once. There was a special Russia-wide contest for the best design of the future “mausoleum” structure. Some of the photos of those works from the archives are here today, this is how it could look.
Hail to the USSR
Music: the Soviet Hymn
Video: the Soviet moments
Even More Giant Soviet Signs
After this first initial “100 Years Lenin’s Anniversary” sign was discovered via google maps (on the photo above), made 40 years ago a whole bunch of similar sightings were found across Russian territory using the same Google instrumentary.
Russian Woodcutters Celebrate
Thirty eight years ago, in 1970 there was a hundred year anniversary of Vladimir Lenin, the guy who inspired Russian people to overthrow the previous Tsar government in Russia in 1917. He was a real icon for many Russians and so in one Siberian town some woodcutters decided to celebrate this anniversary by cutting all the trees on a big field leaving only those that would form a really huge message “100 Years to Lenin”. There were no Google Earth back there, no satellite photos on Internet, no Internet itself, so they didn’t do it for some Internet trick, like “See what we have down pointing your sat pictures browser to …..”. The real reasons are not clear and forgotten now, maybe they got an order from Moscow to make such a big message for American spy satellites, maybe it was their own wish to create something that cannot be observed from the Earth by a regular person. Anyways now, 30 years later we can see it. You can see it from Google yourself following this link.
You can see it on google earth yourself.
See-Through Lenin
If yesterday there was a swimming Lenin, today we have a transparent Lenin.
You can literary see through his body. How is this possible? See inside of the post for more details:
Lenin Swims Away
When the old Lenin becomes unwanted he just swims away…
Lenin and Nazis
Just a one shot post showing what did Nazi soldiers liked to do with Lenin monuments during World War 2…
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