[lbo-talk] Lenin in Fremont

[John Thornton]

Charles Brown 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

I thought that was an odd analogy when I read it. I didn't quite get it, 
Lenin = Klansman?
None of the Russian or Czech immigrants I know feel this way.

John Thornton