[lbo-talk] Lenin

John E. Norem jnorem at cox.net
Thu Jan 3 16:57:00 PST 2008


Soviet icon surprises polar scientists

*Scientists trekking across a little visited part of Antarctica have discovered a bizarre relic of the Soviet Union is dominating the South Pole of Inaccessibility.*

In the middle of no-where – literally the point on Antarctica furthest from the sea – an imposing bust of revolutionary Bolshevik Vladimir Lenin peers out onto the polar emptiness.

A Norwegian-US Scientific Traverse met Lenin this week while nearly a thousand kilometres to the south another group were "moving" the South Pole – literally.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4344635a10.html



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