[lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds"

[andie_nachgeborenen]

Well, they must have put them back up, then, because last I was there they were down or coming down. They shut the Lenin Museum off Red Square decades ago. I have no idea what they did with the typewriter on which he was said to have written Imperialism, or his armored Rolls, or his underwear. And they renamed Leningrad back to St. Petersburg, what, in 1991? I think the polls consistently show that Stalin remains more popular, though both of them decreasingly so.

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On Sep 5, 2012, at 10:53 AM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:


> John Wesley
> 
> Probably not too far from where Stalin lies, since his
> "demausoleumization".   Mike G
> 
> ^^^^^
> CB: Yes, right up there behind Lenin's tomb.
> 
> Did you hear the one about the long lines at Lenin's tomb during the
> fall of the Soviet Union. People wanted to see Lenin spinning in his
> grave.
> 
> By the way, just last month I ran into a young man, a stranger,  in
> line at the bank who , for some reason , just spontaneously said to me
> he just got back from Russia. I don't know if I look like a Leninist
> or what (smiles). Anyway, he says I just got back from Russia. I
> immediately said "how's Lenin doing over there in his tomb". He says,
> "he's still there". and then "Lenin's statues are up all over Russia."
> I said we had heard his statues were taken down. He said, "No, only
> Stalin's".
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