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Saturday, January 5, 2008. "A lie,told often, becomes the truth.". (Deccan Herald)
McHuck-a-Smear Jan 3, 2008
Like Vladimir Lenin in the past, it was Huckabees intent to rely on useful idiots in the media to flood the nation with his disingenuous and insulting message ... Like Vladimir Lenin in the past, it was Huckabees intent to rely on useful idiots in the media to flood the nation with his disingenuous and insulting message. (Townhall.com)
* Kyrgyzstan set to name snowy peak after Santa Dec 22, 2007
Mountains here previously have been named after the revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin and former Russian president Boris Yeltsin. The effort started on Wednesday, as three climbers set off to scale the designated peak, which Kyrgyz authorities are facetiously insisting will be Santa's new home. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
'Mount Santa' to join Lenin, Yeltsin among Central Asian peaks Dec 20, 2007
Mountains here previously have been named after the revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin and former Russian President Boris Yeltsin ... Several other Kyrgyzstan peaks bear the names of the high and the mighty, including Boris Yelstin and Vladimir Lenin. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
Kyrgyzstan to name a mountain for Santa Dec 20, 2007
Other Kyrgyzstan peaks bear the names of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin and former Russian President Boris Yeltsin. 2007 The Associated Press. (WWLTV.com, LA)
Hollywood's 'Useful Idiots' Still Thrive Dec 19, 2007
The ultimate role they play is of Vladimir Lenin s useful idiots -- Westerners naively aiding an ideology opposed to the very freedoms they so freely exercise -- a role he came to greatly appreciate during his ideological struggle with the West. While Communism ultimately lost that ideological war against Western freedom, it remains unclear whether its successor ideology, radical Islam, will incur a similar fate. (Human Events Online)
Country Fast Facts Dec 10, 2007
The Communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon a 00004000 fter and formed the USSR. The brutal rule of Iosif STALIN (1928-53) strengthened Communist rule and Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagnated in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism, but his initiatives inadvertently... (CBS News -- World)
Supporters want Putin to stay in power Dec 6, 2007
Putin's popularity has reached a level unseen since the old Soviet days, when leaders such as Vladimir Lenin enjoyed almost cult-like status. A fan club of youthful followers that calls itself "VV" for the first two initials of Putin's name (Vladimir Vladimirovich) has urged him to stay on as president even though the constitution mandates he leave office after presidential elections in March. (USA Today)
Putin's Landslide Takes Russia Back to the Cold War Dec 5, 2007
Prominent cultural figures, including Oscar-winning film director Nikita Mikhalkov and sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, have published an open letter to Putin, urging him to stay on as a personality cult "national leader." Such a scenario is not unfamiliar to Russians who may recall Joseph Stalin and Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin. Unfortunately, Putin s governing is negatively affecting Russian democracy. (Human Events Online)
Kansas Rules Against Electricity Dec 4, 2007
At this rate, in States around America and in Congress, our economy is going to be wrecked by the environmentalists who, like the former Soviet sympathizers of the last century, were considered useful idiots by Vladimir Lenin. For information on purchasing reprints of this article, contact. (Energy Pulse, CO)
Pope blames atheism for world's worst woes... Dec 1, 2007
He specifically cited Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, and the "intermediate phase" of dictatorship that Marx saw as necessary in the revolution. "This 'intermediate phase' we know all too well, and we also know how it then developed, not ushering in a perfect world, but leaving behind a trail of appalling destruction," Benedict wrote. (The Drudge Report)
Russians looking to live it up even more as economy glitters Nov 29, 2007
By Jeffrey Stinson, USA TODAY MOSCOW Karl Marx would have had a heart attack, and Vladimir Lenin must have been spinning in his tomb. Last weekend, some 45,000 people here crowded a giant exhibition hall 40 miles northwest of Red Square to ogle and buy jewelry, art, yachts, private helicopters, jets and a Tuscan villa at what is billed as the world's leading luxury display. (USA Today -- Money)
Russia's election -- a tale of two Putins Nov 22, 2007
"All the local bosses are members of United Russia," he said in his office decorated with portraits of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. "For them, the other parties do not exist. Igor Dyomin, chief spokesman for United Russia's faction in the national parliament, said many senior officials were party members, but that did not translate into votes for the party. "Instead of having a discussion about the specific issues, they (opposition parties) start inventing all sorts of myths. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
* Lenin shall stand, Germans say w@yC Nov 21, 2007
The last major statue of Vladimir Lenin still standing in Germany, Nov. 8, 2007 ... The last major statue of Vladimir Lenin still standing in Germany has been granted a reprieve. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Incredible change in China produces a major wow reaction Nov 20, 2007
Billboard-size portraits of Mao Zedong, Karl Marx, Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin adorned the Forbidden City, facing Tiananmen square, and Communist Party slogans appeared everywhere. The Cultural Revolution was drawing to a close, individuality had little place in China. (Florida Times-Union)
Solitary state Nov 19, 2007
Vladimir Lenin, an architect of the Bolshevik Revolution nearly a century ago, stands on a pedestal above a wide square that has an underground luxury shopping mall beneath it. A few blocks down Independence Avenue, a bust captures the face of Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Bolshevik who founded the notorious Cheka secret police and embraced the idea of terrorizing citizens inside the newborn Soviet Union. (Boston Globe)
With Leaders The Name Counts Nov 13, 2007
Also, don t forget about Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden; so you never can tell what kind of a leader a person with the n factor will be. Life Magazine s choice for the Top Ten People Who Influenced the Millennium included 50% n names. (Suite101.com)
90th birthday bash for Bolshevik Revolution Nov 8, 2007
They laid wreaths at the mausoleum of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and were guests at a party in the evening in the House of Columns, where Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had lain in state. In Soviet times, Nov. 7 was celebrated with grandiose military parades on Red Square and mass rallies. (MSNBC -- International)
Infotainment Nov 7, 2007
Its Our HistoryBrussels: A statue of the founder of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin lying on the floor, is seen at the exhibition Its Our History 50 years of European History at a gallery. afp. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Pakistan shakes off US shackles Nov 6, 2007 Bush Emphasizes Vigilance in War on Terror Speech Nov 2, 2007 "The Singing Revolution" Celebrates Freedom Nov 2, 2007 13 comments Oct 25, 2007 Power struggleHow Serbia and Kosovo pin hopes on their big backers Oct 22, 2007 Power in China still flows from the party Oct 19, 2007 Failure of Imagination Oct 17, 2007 Father of Mechanism Design Wins Nobel Oct 16, 2007 Time to bury Lenin? Oct 11, 2007 Hundreds of youths face charges after clashes with police in Copenhagen Oct 7, 2007 Ram-ming the Indian economy Oct 6, 2007 Geopolitics: Bombs, Babies And Bolsheviks Sep 14, 2007 Make babies, wind prizes, Russian province tells couples Sep 13, 2007 TGIW: Don't work, have sex Sep 12, 2007 Russia gets set for 'Conception Day'... Sep 11, 2007 Tech: Choice, defense lead Jackets Sep 2, 2007 Trinkets and treasure: China tames the US Aug 31, 2007 Russian Success Rooted in Labor Aug 24, 2007 Hiro: Superpower in Decline Aug 23, 2007 Hugo Chavez And His American Useful Idiots Aug 22, 2007 VideoRussians get day off to make babies Aug 19, 2007 Rare glimpse of N. Korea Aug 8, 2007 Bhutto maps her return to power Aug 4, 2007 Not afraid to butt heads as he built empire Aug 1, 2007 Sour-Grapes, Deja-Vu Jul 20, 2007 Change happens only when informed people speak out: Santoshi Jul 15, 2007 A dangerous dictator, a presidential candidate, and judgment Jul 11, 2007 Tajikistan: Glimpsing the Power Source Jun 30, 2007 Iranian resistance to protest EU ruling Jun 29, 2007 Great games and famous victories Jun 26, 2007 Exclusive: Tom Snyder exposes feeble-minded defense of socialism, Castro's Cuba Jun 25, 2007 Climate Change: Rebels With A Klaus Jun 23, 2007 Electricity not cut off for Communists - yet Jun 11, 2007 Russia meets missile with missile in row over shield May 31, 2007 Exclusive: Ted Baehr drubs Hollywood types who fawn over egomaniacal dictators May 29, 2007 Governor duped by climate hoax May 27, 2007 Punk rabble-rousers May 27, 2007 Asteroid discovered by UNT graduate student May 25, 2007 Tajikistan: Soviet-Era Monuments Quietly Disappearing May 21, 2007 Investment bankers head to Moscow for more pay May 16, 2007 Moscow, the hottest market in banking, pays twice as much as New York May 14, 2007 Moscow Bankers Receive $7 Million Annually, Double Average Wall Street Pay May 14, 2007 Kirill Lavrov, 81, actor May 3, 2007 The Stalins of sound May 2, 2007 Demonstrations Mark May Day in Russia May 2, 2007 To History Lesson, your pre-1960s utopia is nothing but a fantasy. Unless racism, lynchings, McCarthyism, poverty, the KKK, sexism, and all those "traditional values" are your sort of thing. More... Apr 29, 2007 Putin to freeze Nato arms treaty Apr 27, 2007 Russians pay respects to flawed hero Yeltsin Apr 25, 2007 Yeltsin becomes first democratically elected president of Russia Apr 24, 2007 Yeltsin forces Gorbachev to resign as Soviet Union collapses Apr 24, 2007 Leon Goure; Cold War warnings led to more civil defense efforts Apr 7, 2007 Ruble Rousers Mar 30, 2007 In Cuba, following in Papa's footsteps Mar 25, 2007 Letters published Feb. 14,2007 Mar 22, 2007 US Communist party's archives opened to the public Mar 21, 2007 Jury of 'peers' selected Mar 16, 2007 St. Petersburg -- The Cradle Of The Political Elite Mar 11, 2007 Spielberg Found With Stolen Rockwell Painting Mar 7, 2007 A center of contention is razed Mar 6, 2007 Tearful protesters fail to save historic centre Mar 6, 2007 Communists resist joining Chvez Mar 6, 2007 Spielberg and the Case of the Stolen Rockwell Mar 6, 2007 FBI may have recovered stolen Rockwell painting Mar 4, 2007 Spielberg staff find stolen art Mar 4, 2007 Danish police report new scuffles Mar 4, 2007
Musharraf's move coincides almost to the hour with the thundering speech by President George W Bush at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think-tank, on Thursday in which he blasted the US Congress for failing to take his "war on terror" not seriously enough, and he went on to compare Osama bin Laden to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin. Addressing his neo-conservative acolytes, Bush came back to his favorite theme that via his "war on terror", he was actually waging a global war for... (Asia Times Online)
Steelers joke, share tales at 75th year gala Nov 5, 2007
At an outdoor mall in Moscow, next to a nesting doll that traced Russian leaders from Vladimir Putin to Vladimir Lenin, he noticed a similar object adorned in the black and gold of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This doll started with Jack Lambert, then inside was Joe Greene, Franco Harris, Terry Bradshaw and Lynn Swann in descending order, each figure smaller than the one preceding it. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
org bloggers and Code Pink protesters," Bush said, receiving loud applause from the conservative audience. Bush also called on Americans to do their best not to forget the lessons from the Sept. 11, 2001, attack, saying that the country must listen to its enemies like Usama Bin Laden, who continually promises to attack the United States. He compared Bin Laden to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin, saying the world paid "a terrible price" for ignoring plans they announced. "Bin Laden and his... (Fox News -- Politics)
In 1947, the Soviets took control of the festival, replacing the traditional music with Soviet propaganda films honoring Vladimir Lenin and Stalin. But composer Gustav Ernesaks pulled a fast one on the communists. (Townhall.com)
You mean like Vladimir Lenin and his Bolsheviks; or Czar Nicolas and his imperialism. Or perhaps you simply wish to bury us. (Human Events Online)
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In a nod to the old ideology, officials at the congress unveiled new translations of the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin. They said scholars had produced 800 new essays on the "practical, ethnical and epochal characteristics of Marxism in the present-day China.". (USA Today -- News)
In 1917, Vladimir Lenin tore down the constitutional government of Russia ... In 1917, Vladimir Lenin tore down the constitutional government of Russia. (Townhall.com)
Leonid Hurwicz was born in Moscow in 1917, the year that Vladimir Lenin led the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia. Ninety years later on Oct. 15, 2007 Hurwicz was awarded a Nobel prize in economics, in part for explaining the fundamental flaw in the central planning that Lenin imposed in the Soviet Union. (BusinessWeek)
MOSCOW The fate of one of Moscow's most famous symbols the tomb of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin should be put to Russia's voters, a top Kremlin official said in an interview published Wednesday. The comments by Vladimir Kozhin, who heads of the Kremlin's property department, reflect the on-again, off-again debate among officials in President Vladimir Putin's government about what to do with the mausoleum in Red Square. (Globe and Mail)
Vladimir Lenin was among its visitors. In recent years, it had hosted concerts by performers such as Australian musician Nick Cave and Icelandic singer Bjork. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
They tend to cling to the principles of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin (and Mao Zedong, albeit more obliquely) even as communist governments in other parts of the world have quietly embraced capitalist principles for running their economies. That they are actually elected to power, and participate in a free-wheeling liberal democracy, is testament to their adaptive genes, even if those self-same genes have not delivered any meaningful adjustments on the economic side of things. (Asia Times Online)
This year a couple in the birthplace of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin won a jeep after their fourth baby was born on the holiday. A record 78 babies have been born this year in the region's main hospital. (Investors Business Daily)
The city of Ulyanovsk, previously Simbirsk, located 900 kilometers (560 miles) east of Moscow has a special place in national mythology as it was named after the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, whose real surname was Ulyanov. Copyright 2007 Agence France-Presse. (Inquirer.net)
This is the third year Ulyanovsk region, famous as the birthplace of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin, has dedicated a day to encouraging couples to produce more babies. Prizes will extend equally to unwed women who produce children on the right day, though the biggest prizes will go to married couples. (Globe and Mail -- International)
The city of Ulyanovsk, previously Simbirsk, located 900 kilometres (560 miles) east of Moscow has a special place in national mythology as it was named after the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, whose real surname was Ulyanov. Copyright AFP 2007, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. (The Drudge Report)
The Notre Dame faithful like to think Knute Rockne, George Gipp and The Four Horsemen did for football what Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin did for socialism. And they hold Notre Dame Stadium in the same reverence as the basilica church located steps away. (The Augusta Chronicle)
On the unlikely possibility that there still are a few communists left in the Chinese Communist Party, they must find the irony nothing short of ambrosial - once again, just as Vladimir Lenin said they would, communists are selling capitalists the rope with which they will hang themselves. Looking after vested interests The operation and effectiveness of the new Chinese power paradigm has been well demonstrated in President George W Bush's China policies. (Asia Times Online)
Five very strong men lead that nation for 96% of its communist history; Vladimir Lenin (7 years), Joseph Stalin (29 years), Greorgy Malenkov (5 months), Nikita Khrushchev (11 years), Leonid Brezhnev (18 years), Yuri Andropov (1. 4 years), Konstantin Chernyenko (13 months) and Mikhail Gorbachev (6. (Suite101.com)
While visiting Moscow in June 2007, he urged Russians to return to the ideas of Vladimir Lenin, especially his anti-imperialism. "The Americans don't want Russia to keep rising," he said. (Zmag.org)
The phrase "useful idiot" was supposedly coined by Vladimir Lenin to describe sympathizers with the Soviet Union from the west or the United States. While the USSR no longer exists, political and other famous Americans have carried the torch of dissent to the extreme, endearing themselves to left wing governments while criticizing the homeland. (American Chronicle)
Moscow A Russian region best known as the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin has found a novel way to fight the nation's birthrate crisis: It has declared Sept. 12 the Day of Conception and for the third year running is giving couples time off from work to procreate. The hope is for a brood of babies exactly nine months later on Russia's national day. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
In 1969, arriving in Russia as a student, it seemed that every street I traveled was decorated with the image of Vladimir Lenin, father of the Russian revolution. Adults wore lapel pins with images of the Bolshevik leader, children wore little "Baby Lenin" pins. (CNN -- International)
Vladimir Lenin, Napoleon III, Charles de Gaulle and Augusto Pinochet all were exiled in this city at one point or another. Some of these figures made triumphant returns to their homelands, some did not. (Globe and Mail)
He was known as "Red Rupert" at Oxford University in Britain, where he studied political science and kept a bust of Vladimir Lenin on his dorm room mantel. Family business pulled apart. (USA Today -- Money)
And those of us who know a little bit about contemporary world history fully appreciate the fact that only a piddling modicum of what happened in France and Russia under Napoleon Bonaparte and Vladimir Lenin, respectively, could be chalked up as having redounded to the long-term benefit for the people in whose name and purported interests these political adventurers launched their so-called revolutions. Perhaps some more critical thinker ought to remind Mr. Koi Larbi that the French and Russian... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Friday, July 13, 2007. Any cook should be able to run the country. (Deccan Herald)
Like Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, in Kennedy, Delahunt, Serrano, actor Danny Glover, and other Americans, Chavez has found his useful idiots to spread the word of his own Bolivarian Revolution ... Like Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, in Kennedy, Delahunt, Serrano, actor Danny Glover, and other Americans, Chavez has found his useful idiots to spread the word of his own Bolivarian Revolution. (Townhall.com)
The town of Nurek, still dominated by a statue of Vladimir Lenin, was built specifically to house the workers who staff the power plant. On a recent day in June, as temperatures soared well over 45 degrees Celsius (over 100 degrees Fahrenheit), buses full of workers shuttled between the town and the tight security perimeter of the dam s power station. (EurasiaNet.org)
In a barnstorming speech lasting more than an hour at a reception in Moscow, Ch vez quoted the works of Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and thanked Putin for showing solidarity in Venezuela's feud with the United States. But the pro-Kremlin majority in parliament overturned an earlier decision to invite the Venezuelan leader to address the full chamber today, moving him to a smaller hall instead. (Boston Globe)
Thus, the irony of government-financed graduate study to ward off the socialist menace, and Carnegie and Ford Foundation philanthropy to save capitalism by paying serious young Americans to read Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Universities like Indiana with more than the usual offerings in Russian history and Slavic languages were ready reservoirs for CIA recruiters and Gates was their ideal target. (Asia Times Online)
Michael Moore's visit to Cuba in "Sicko" shows that, like the leftists who defended the murderous regimes of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung, truth and justice are the last things on Mr. Moore's mind. He even interviews the daughter of Che Guevara, the Communist murderer who, along with Fidel Castro's brother Raul, led Castro's execution squads during the "Revolution." Even if Cuba has a better healthcare system overall than the U.S. (a claim that cannot be supported by infant... (WorldNetDaily)
Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin would have signed Kyoto. . (Investors Business Daily)
Much has since been sold, but the party still owns several apartments, including one used by Vladimir Lenin during a visit to Paris. Jean-Louis Frostin, the party treasurer, said its finances were "very stretched, but not bled dry," adding: "None of the works of art given to us over the years has been valued because they are not for sale." He said the headquarters "hasn't been valued, either." The party's 90,000 members pay about $8 million in dues every year, said Mr. Frostin, who acknowledged... (Washington Times)
Vladimir Lenin would probably call such way of doing things as political prostitution. Jim A / 7:26am 30 May 2007. (Scotsman)
Vladimir Lenin, the Communist founder of the Soviet Union, pegged the vacuousness of these fellow travelers with the title of his famous book "Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder." For proof that it is an infantile disorder, we need look no further than the Hollywood sycophants who endorse these regimes. What is happening in Venezuela is the same type of crime that happened in Argentina under Juan Peron, in Cambodia under Pol Pot, in Cuba under Fidel Castro, and is happening in Zimbabwe... (WorldNetDaily)
If you looked in the mirror, would you see someone named Arthur who looks a lot like Vladimir Lenin ... To Gonzo wrote on May 26, 2007 9:53 PM:" ...who looks a lot like Vladimir Lenin and is every bit the communist! " ... To Gonzo wrote on May 26, 2007 9:46 PM:" Gonzo...If you looked in the mirror, would you see someone named Arthur who looks a lot like Vladimir Lenin? ". (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Something Better Change and the title track to their second album (No More Heroes which name-checked Marxist icons Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin) gave a clue to the bands more credible ideas. and naturally enough attracted the leftist teenage student of history that I was. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
In all, about 13,000 asteroids have names that range from gods (Zeus and Eros) and authors (Emily Bronte and Emile Zola) to pop singers (each member of the Beatles) and leaders (Vladimir Lenin). But there is some etiquette when it comes to naming asteroids. (KHOU.com, TX)
Of the many monuments removed from Tajikistan since the Soviet collapse in 1991, the greatest number were of Vladimir Lenin, the first head of the Soviet Union. Other Soviet leaders and commanders, like Mikhail Frunze or Cheslav Putovsky, have also quietly disappeared. (EurasiaNet.org)
MOSCOW: Within a mile of the tomb of Vladimir Lenin, who vowed to destroy capitalists, investment bankers are now earning double the pay of their counterparts anywhere else. Deal makers like Ed Kaufman, who left UBS in March for Alfa Bank, and Nicholas Jordan, who will run Lehman Brothers Holdings' new Moscow office, are offered $7 million and more a year, industry recruiters said. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
MOSCOW: Not far from the tomb of Vladimir Lenin, who vowed to destroy capitalism, investment bankers in Moscow are now earning double the pay of their counterparts in major financial markets. Dealmakers like Edward Kaufman, who left UBS in March for Alfa Bank, and Nicholas Jordan, who will run Lehman Brothers' new office in Moscow, have been offered annual packages of $7 million and more, industry recruiters say. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Within a mile of the tomb of Vladimir Lenin, who vowed to destroy capitalists, investment bankers in Moscow are now earning double the pay of their counterparts anywhere else. Dealmakers such as Ed Kaufman, who left UBS AG in March for Alfa Bank, and Nicholas Jordan, who will run Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s new Moscow office, are offered $7 million and more a year, industry recruiters said. (Bloomberg)
Popular fame as one of the few actors allowed to depict Communist leader Vladimir Lenin arguably restricted his theater career -- though he only played the role four times, twice on screen and twice on the stage. Rather he will be remembered for the likes of stage roles like Molchalin in Griboyedov's "Woe from Wit" from 1962, and Astrov in Chekov's "Uncle Vanya" 20 years later, both at the theater which was his home for more than 50 years. (Variety)
MOSCOW - It's a pity Vladimir Lenin was tone-deaf, and dismissed music (along with chess) as an entertainment for the ruling class. Had he an ear and taste for classical music (like Karl Marx, who was keen on Ludwig van Beethoven, and Leon Trotsky, who loved Giuseppe Verdi), he might have devised a revolutionary doctrine for the performing arts. (Asia Times Online)
Thousands also turned out for a Communist Party demonstration, marching from a square adorned by a statue of Bolshevik Revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin to one that features a bust of Karl Marx. Police put their number at more than 5,000. (Newsmax)
Euphoric Reality wrote on April 27, 2007 8:49 AM:"To: 'separation of church and state' - You're very wrong with your secular kneejerk charge that most of the world's violence can be attributed to religious beliefs. Over the past century, atheists like Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedung, Pol Pot and those father and son nut cases in North Korea have filled more mass graves, performed more mass executions and filled more concentration camps and gulags than in all... (North County Times)
The first was launched by Vladimir Lenin in 1920. "By 2020 we must boost power-generation in Russia by two-thirds."To achieve that the state and private-sector firms will invest 12 trillion roubles ($467bn). (Aljazeera.net)
It is a break with the past as Kremlin leaders have traditionally been buried in Red Square, where a mausoleum houses the body of Vladimir Lenin. YELTSIN'S LEGACY. (Malaysia Star)
The former imperial capital and cradle of the Bolshevik Revolution was renamed Leningrad in 1924 after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the modern Soviet state. Tass, reflecting the Kremlin view of politics, groused that the referendum results are not binding because the city got its current name by vote of a soviet, or council. (Globe and Mail -- International)
The hammer-and-sickle flag was immediately lowered over the Kremlin for the last time, symbolically ending the Soviet state founded by Vladimir Lenin after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The Soviet Union will stumble on in name only until Jan. 2. (Globe and Mail -- International)
His father belonged to the Mensheviks, socialists allied with the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution until they were liquidated by Vladimir Lenin. Most of the Mensheviks were Jewish. (Boston Globe)
Vladimir Lenin would have paid his respects here as a young revolutionary; the office where he briefly edited the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party journal was only a few miles away. Now in a slightly less imposing locale, but already greening under the relentless drizzle of a London winter, there is the grave of Litvinenko with its lead-lined coffin, attracting its own sporadic stream of family and friends. (Ocnus.net)
The local fishermen rounded up scrap bronze in the 1960s to make the likeness, although this Papa has an odd resemblance to Russia's Vladimir Lenin. La Terraza stands out from its dull neighbors. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
The Communist Vladimir Lenin coined the term useful idiots. Many white liberals fit this category as well as Southern politicians who are helping destroy Confederate principles, heritage, and symbols. (Catoosa County News, GA)
It includes material relating to the formation of the party, its attempts to protect itself from the prying eye of the FBI, relations with Vladimir Lenin and the Soviet Union and postwar involvement in the civil rights struggle. One document, retrieved from the boxes by the New York Times, contains an account by a correspondent for the party based in Moscow of an interview with Lenin in which he said the US was a "great country in some respects", and asked: "How soon will the revolution come in... (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
It's a nuisance to arrive at the court 90 minutes early, but I found it worthwhile to arrive early when Conrad biographer Peter Newman (who was sued by Black and subsequently apologized) stumbled late onto the scene wearing his silly Vladimir Lenin hat, expecting easy access, and was turned away. He had to go to the pool television room, which displeased him so he left. (Edmonton Sun)
In 1917, when the mansion belonged to the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya, Vladimir Lenin returned from exile and, in a room at the back of the house, persuaded the Bolshevik government to establish a Soviet regime in Russia. MORE: RFE/RL recently spoke to former presidential economy adviser and St. Petersburg native Andrei Illarionov about Russia's political elite. (Ocnus.net)
The oil-on-canvas painting shows children in a classroom with a bust of communist leader Vladimir Lenin. Early FBI estimates put the painting's value at $700,000. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
Built in 1897, it was a community theater for the labor movement and a culture and conference center; Vladimir Lenin was among its visitors. In recent years, it has hosted concerts with performers like Australian Nick Cave and Icelandic singer Bjork. (Boston Globe)
The "Ungdomshuset" or Youth House which once hosted Vladimir Lenin, has been the focus of street riots in recent days following the eviction of squatters from the building which has been sold to a rightwing Christian sect. Yesterday demonstrators laid flowers at the end of Jagtvej Street in the workers' district of Noerrebro as dust from the demolition filled the air. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
After the character of this organization is defined, the political parties will make decisions'' regarding their own future, Figuera said at the party headquarters in Caracas, where portraits of communist icons Vladimir Lenin and Ho Chi Minh hang on the walls. It cannot occur beforehand. (The Miami Herald)
Russian Schoolroom, whose value is estimated to be between $700,000 and $1 million, portrays children in a classroom staring at a bust of Vladimir Lenin. It was swiped from a small art gallery in Clayton, Missouri, in a late-night burglary in June 1973 and wasn't seen until 1988, when it surfaced at an auction in New Orleans and sold for $70,000. (E! Online)
The oil-on-canvas painting shows children in a classroom with a bust of communist leader Vladimir Lenin. The painting the FBI was searching for measured 16-by-37 inches and was presented in a 2-by-4 foot frame of dull gold-white molding, according to the FBI's description of the missing work. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
The work features a group of children in a classroom with a bust of Vladimir Lenin. Rockwell is best known for his evocative portrayals of everyday small-town life. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Vladimir Lenin was among its visitors while in recent years it has hosted concerts with performers including Australian musician Nick Cave and Icelandic singer Bjork. The eviction had been planned since last year, when courts ordered the squatters to hand the building over to a Christian congregation that bought it six years ago. (Aljazeera.Net)
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