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Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXqTR46HGVo

Heads will roll over this.

The crane operator's parents always told him to use his head, be he got a little ahead of himself.

"Did I do that?"

Mmmm...I love it.
I hated that even though Stalin statues had been removed when I was in Russia (95-96) the Lenin statues were still up, he was still revered and his body kept in the mausoleum on Red Square.
I can't tell whether the video was made in Russia or Ukraine, but it's a sign of better times.

100yrs too late

Come on Lenin, pull yourself together!

< Churchhillish voice on >

Some Chechen. Some neck!

< Churchhillish voice off >

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
Come on Lenin, pull yourself together!

Come together....



Yes, I know.

There's a formula to follow when hanging a culprit so the head stays attached...

That was a mighty poor rigging job... but I LIKE the result!

Not to worry, you can still see a statue of Lenin..........in Seattle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ue_of_Lenin,_Seattle

The Statue of Lenin is a 16-foot bronze sculpture of Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin located in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Initially installed in Czechoslovakia in 1988, the sculpture was removed after the Velvet Revolution and later purchased and brought to the United States by an American English teacher in the 1990s.

It would be a freakin' shame if that was tipped over and a Sawzall used to behead it!

Sgt Neutron's picture of Lenin's 16 foot statue is quite amusing. The last time I was at Lenin's tomb in Red Square in Moscow, his corpse on display was barely 5 feet tall. He was a very diminutive man.

The rumor is that the mice have eaten parts of his feet and toes, so that makes him shorter yet.

Still, even more humorous is how he is lying there will his eyes open staring at the ceiling. It reminds me of a jack in the box, as if at any second he could jump up and yell, "BOOOO!".

H&K-Guy

How fitting, hung then beheaded.

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Originally posted by H&K-Guy:
...he is lying there will his eyes open staring at the ceiling...

H&K-Guy

His eyes look closed to me. Are we thinking of the same Lenin?

Don't worry, the big one is still up and cross-eyed.

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Originally posted by Sgt Neutron:
Not to worry, you can still see a statue of Lenin..........in Seattle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ue_of_Lenin,_Seattle

The Statue of Lenin is a 16-foot bronze sculpture of Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin located in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Initially installed in Czechoslovakia in 1988, the sculpture was removed after the Velvet Revolution and later purchased and brought to the United States by an American English teacher in the 1990s.

What does it tell you when a statue of Lenin can stand in Seattle while statues and other memorials to R.E. Lee & T.G. Jackson get taken down from places in the South.

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Originally posted by Sgt Neutron:
Not to worry, you can still see a statue of Lenin..........in Seattle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ue_of_Lenin,_Seattle

The Statue of Lenin is a 16-foot bronze sculpture of Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin located in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Initially installed in Czechoslovakia in 1988, the sculpture was removed after the Velvet Revolution and later purchased and brought to the United States by an American English teacher in the 1990s.

Wikipedia says the statue is for sale for $250k. We could crowd fund buying it, melt it down and have it reformed into a statue commemorating capitalism.

A solid 10 on the dismount!