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Blowing a Hole in Lenin's Ass
As lute-playing, patchouli-stinking
part-time revolutionaries
lay siege to the Royal Bank of Scotland,
demanding the end of capitalism, the banking industry, and democracy, protesters in St. Petersburg (née
Leningrad) have found a more worthy
target:
One of Russia's most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear.
The bronze statue, in the city of St Petersburg, was badly damaged before dawn on Wednesday, when the blast blew a hole in Lenin's coat.
No-one was hurt in the attack, the motive for which was unknown.
As predicted, the "demands" of the G-20 protesters are slightly unfocused, but actor Russell Brand, who attended today's riot, thinks that battling the bobbies might reveal an alternative economic order: "I wonder what alternatives there are and I think [the protest] makes people cogent of them." I, for one, am certainly more "cogent" of the alternatives to capitialism after seeing Balclava-clad university students steal a printer from an insolvent bank.
William F. Buckley, Jr.|4.1.09 @ 2:59PM|#
The question to ask a radical: In what kind of society would you be a conservative?
NolongerTofuSushi|4.1.09 @ 3:00PM|#
So, was the bomber a real school trained bomber, or was he one of those sloppy Chechans(sp?)
NolongerTofuSushi|4.1.09 @ 3:06PM|#
Wow, even a complete ripoff of the URL too and spread through several article comment sections!
SpongePaul|4.1.09 @ 3:19PM|#
Its all the darn Mexicans and thier hot sauces and beans and such, they have invaded Russia and caused lenin to blow a gasket!
SpongePaul|4.1.09 @ 3:19PM|#
do i need to tell you that last post was sarcastic, sometimes i think people take everything literal nowadays, lol
NolongerTofuSushi|4.1.09 @ 3:24PM|#
SF,
Just because I chose shotguns instead of banjos for your duel does
not give you license to be all anal.
Beaker|4.1.09 @ 3:34PM|#
Makes me wonder what the guys standing in front of the statue are staring at.
NolongerTofuSushi|4.1.09 @ 3:38PM|#
Makes me wonder what the guys standing in front of the
statue are staring at.
A hole.
|4.1.09 @ 3:38PM|#
One of Russia's most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear.
I do not excuse vandalism.
But I'll make an exception this one time.
NolongerTofuSushi|4.1.09 @ 3:41PM|#
"In an unintended turn of events for the National Endowment of the Arts, pre-Obama grant recipients performed in St. Petersburg."
JB|4.1.09 @ 4:08PM|#
I loved that bankers were taunting the protesters and waving
money at them.
I would have pissed on the dirty fucking hippies.
..|4.1.09 @ 4:10PM|#
the motive for which was unknown
Really?
By the way, troll enablers are turds.
Just sayin'.
threeofclubs|4.1.09 @ 4:12PM|#
Don't think that RBS is insolvent thanks to the tax payer.
read that there were only around 4,000 protesters.
Still thats an impressive amount of lute players to be gathered in
one place.
|4.2.09 @ 12:46AM|#
Caption:
He had shit for brains and spent his whole life talking out of his
ass. ;-)
a knight|4.2.09 @ 1:25AM|#
Although greatly amused viewing this image of a hole blown out
of Lenin's thinking end, I derived much more humour from your
post's inanity.
How dare these "patchouli-stinking" (flailing to be cute verbose
wanker's codeword for hippie) fools protest in front of the very
symbol of capitalism's greatness; The Royal Bank of Scotland? Ah
yes, every faux libertarian boi inherently understands that the
righteousness of being sodomised with a blunt instrument is a
function of the perpetrator's nature, and not the act itself. A
collectivist entity that is a financial corporation. which fled
crying to suckle at the the nanny state's teat, instead of facing
the true free-market liabilities which flow naturally from its past
deplorable business decisions, possesses a greater virtuousness,
than the woodenheaded collectivism of mob rule.
Free-Market and Capitalism are not synonymous. If you feel the need
to defend your political world view at the ramparts of RBS, might I
suggest that you also blow up your water wings? It seems
self-evident, that you've yet leaned how to swim.
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