U guys still have Statue of Lenin ? (Seattle: for sale, home)

[RuslanK]

Coming from Russia wanted to see this amazing peace of art, considering that i was born in Soviet Union and communist !!!

[70Ford]

Yep. Still have our Statue of Lenin.



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[allforcats]

Here's the address for this "amazing piece of art", as you say:
600 N 36th, Seattle, WA
Lenin Statue, Seattle, Washington

[kanhawk]

Originally Posted by allforcats

Here's the address for this "amazing piece of art", as you say:
600 N 36th, Seattle, WA
Lenin Statue, Seattle, Washington

Lenin may have sucked as a commie political leader, but who knew he had good taste for tacos?

[rickers]

Well if I was a truck driver and my brakes failed at the same time that the fuel pedal got stuck on full bore. I would aim right for the statue !
It would be of coarse "an accident" !

[MichaelinWA]

OK, but the statue is still for sale, the last I read. I think the asking price was something like $250k. You've heard the expression, "you broke it, you bought it"?

Carlos, the little blue Taco Del Mar fish, does seem to have a passing resemblance to Leon Trotsky. Hmm..

[Destructoman!]

I think it's so hilarious that Seattle has a Lenin statue, in Fremont no less! It just seems to reaffirm the suspicions of the right-wing conservative yokels east of the cascades. Can't you just see a good ol' boy in Eastern Washington yakking to the waitress at the local greasy spoon diner:

"Gawd Damm liberal, hippie, basterds in Seattle have a gawd damm statue of Lenin fer Chrissakes! What kinda commie, socialist B.S. is that? It's downright un-Amurican! No wonder this state is going to hell in a handbasket!"

I've heard there is a movement in Eastern WA to try to secede from the rest of the state and call their new state "Reagan". Bwa ha ha ha!

Oh, and Rickers, The statue is bronze. I'm afraid the statue might be the winner in a collision with your truck!

[gnab gib]

Originally Posted by Destructoman!

I think it's so hilarious that Seattle has a Lenin statue, in Fremont no less!

When I was reading up on Seattle before my trip out there, I was fairly appalled by the thought that the city would allow a statue of one of history's great butchers to stand. Now that I've been there and stood next to him, I can totally appreciate the artistic grandeur of the whole thing. He's striding forward so purposefully through the flames around him. It's really quite impressive.

It's just too bad that it's Vladimir Lenin.

But then it *is* in Fremont, home of the naked bicyclists. I think just about anything goes in that neighborhood.

[sean98125]

I think a Lenin statue that you can't get a photo of without getting the logo of a fast food taco stand is a perfectly appropriate way to show the triumph of capitalism over communism. And seeing the Lenin statue in the middle of a neighborhood that is increasingly taken over by chains and large businesses really emphasizes how total the collapse of Communism has been in the past 20 years. China isn't even pretending to be a communist nation any more.

[Hamza]

One thing that seeing it in pictures does not convey:

It's friggin' huge.