… the last one hundred percent political dictatorship of Europe,” said Mr UD when I read him an article my sister just sent me about Belarus. “By comparison, Russia is a great democracy.”
In 1993, in Diatlovo, he visited The Museum of Peoples’ Glory (or something like that; Mr. UD forgets), though his main purpose was to visit significant Soltan family sites. “The woman at the museum was absolutely shocked that someone showed up wanting to see it.”
I suppose when you hold on to icons of Soviet glory past their expiration date, this sort of thing will happen:
A massive statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin collapsed on a man who was hanging from it Monday, killing him on the spot, authorities said.
The 21-year-old man was drunk when he climbed onto the five-meter (16-foot)-high plaster monument and hung from its arm, the Emergency Situations ministry said. It then broke into pieces and he was crushed.
The statue in the southeastern Belarus town of Uvarovichi was built in 1939…
August 10th, 2009 at 9:51PM
I will send this to two of my Belarusian friends, safely in the US, and see what they have to say…
Bill
August 10th, 2009 at 10:04PM
A famous illustration, suitable for this post.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:20AM
What kind of cheapskate builds a plaster monument? It makes Ozymandias seem downright immortal.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:09PM
Wow. Lenin has been dead how many years? And he’s still killing people in Russia.