Interestingly, the northernmost statue of Lenin is actually in Norway, in Svalbard/Spitzbergen, where two statues reside.
A few other highlights:
* Prokopyevsk – statue was destroyed by a drunk man attempting to take a selfie
* Volgograd – The Post Office building is a statue of Lenin.
* Richmond, BC (Canada) – A small statue of Mao Zedong on top of a large stainless steel Lenin bust.
* Pole of Inacessibility (Antarctica) – Plastic bust left by Soviet scientists in December 1958
* Dubna – the world’s second largest statue of Lenin lies in the vicinity of the “Big Volga”. Sculptor SD Merkurov, height 25 m (with pedestal 37 m), weight 540 tons. The monument was erected in 1937 on the banks of the Volga near the beginning of the Moscow Canal. On the other bank was a monument to Stalin. After Stalin’s death the monument was blown up, but the pedestal remained.
Italians had been on the verge of going communist since the end of the WW2. Now Italians are in bed with Chinese investors and government.
Do you think that contacts with foreign powers and subversion are a recent thing?
Also, a lot of the west European intelligentsia “for some reason” (see above) condemns (as it should be) nazi-fascism but is very relaxed around communism.
Because Italy is full of both communists and fascists. That’s why we are so fucking dumb.
The same band wrote a [song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCBHtER91yk) about the city I live in, where you find roads named after Karl Marx, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Stalingrad, Josip Broz Tito, and October Revolution.
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Wait until you read about the streets still named after Lenin, Marx, and the Soviet Union.
Pretty sure there are a handful named after Stalin, too.
Lenin Statues are in some [interesting places](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statues_of_Vladimir_Lenin)
Interestingly, the northernmost statue of Lenin is actually in Norway, in Svalbard/Spitzbergen, where two statues reside.
A few other highlights:
* Prokopyevsk – statue was destroyed by a drunk man attempting to take a selfie
* Volgograd – The Post Office building is a statue of Lenin.
* Richmond, BC (Canada) – A small statue of Mao Zedong on top of a large stainless steel Lenin bust.
* Pole of Inacessibility (Antarctica) – Plastic bust left by Soviet scientists in December 1958
* Dubna – the world’s second largest statue of Lenin lies in the vicinity of the “Big Volga”. Sculptor SD Merkurov, height 25 m (with pedestal 37 m), weight 540 tons. The monument was erected in 1937 on the banks of the Volga near the beginning of the Moscow Canal. On the other bank was a monument to Stalin. After Stalin’s death the monument was blown up, but the pedestal remained.
* Ulan Ude – [biggest head of Lenin in the world](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-giant-lenin-head-of-ulan-ude-ulan-ude-russia), in front of Buryatia government building
Sanction them to stone age!
Italians had been on the verge of going communist since the end of the WW2. Now Italians are in bed with Chinese investors and government.
Do you think that contacts with foreign powers and subversion are a recent thing?
Also, a lot of the west European intelligentsia “for some reason” (see above) condemns (as it should be) nazi-fascism but is very relaxed around communism.
Because Italy is full of both communists and fascists. That’s why we are so fucking dumb.
There’s a song dedicated to that town and its Lenin bust: [Piccola Pietroburgo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2chf6A60ri4)
The same band wrote a [song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCBHtER91yk) about the city I live in, where you find roads named after Karl Marx, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Stalingrad, Josip Broz Tito, and October Revolution.
But we also have Tiananmen Square Martyrs Street.