Monday, April 10, 2006

Lenin's 136-th birthday

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Photo from: http://konoplinovich.livejournal.com/278361.html

He's everywhere. Travel the length and breadth of Russia and he'll be your constant companion. The pointed chin is ill disguised by a trademark goatee, his clipped moustache and piercing eyes speak of scholarly austerity and implacable determination. Rarely will he look you in the eye. He prefers the vast expanses of the future, which he surveys endlessly with an expression of noble absorption. Occasionally, he cannot help but fling his right arm outwards in a gesture of visionary yearning.

Originally posted: http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article355951...

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