Russia is covered in statues of Lenin. No one thinks anything about them one way or the other.
There's one about a 10-minute walk from my apartment. It's a favorite place for teenagers to skateboard.
--- Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
> "The statue was controversial and remains so --
> especially to Russian
> immigrants. It's as if someone erected a sculpture
> of a Klansman in the
> deep South
>
> &&&
>
> More like someone put up a sculpture of John Brown
> in the deep South
>
> John Henry
>
> &&&&&&&
>
> (wait -- someone has), or Chinese Communists sold
> tickets for a look
> at Tibetan temples outside Disney World (oh yeah,
> that too...). Or
> someone slapped up a statue of Mark David Chapman,
> assassin of John
> Lennon, in Strawberry Fields (not so far). "
>
>
>
> >>> "John E. Norem" <jnorem at cox.net> 01/22/2008 5:18
> PM >>>
>
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/WASEAlenin.html
>
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