'Tis the season to be Commie

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The other week, ol' V.I. had strings of red lights coming down from the star to a circle around the base of the statue. At night, when lit up, it looked like one of those quick-and-dirty Christmas trees "Holiday trees" made out of lights. Unfortunately, you couldn't see the Lenin for the tree. So last week, somebody cut the strings of lights. This week, they were removed altogether.

A far better look, in our opinion. The minimalism --and symbolism-- of the simple red star serves the statue much better during this joyous season.

Fa da da da da!, Comrade!

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Never quite understood why you'd put up a statue to honor someone who ordered the slaughter of so many people.

He was a brilliant theorist and writer, but an absolute abomination as a human being and it honestly makes me cringe every time I see that statue.

Someone stole his mittens, too....the were the dern-tootin' biggest mittens I ever did see.

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