Well, a town in Poland has erected a monument. In Nowa Huta, a statue of Lenin was recently erected.
Yes, you read that correctly. And no, you haven’t fallen through a 50+ year time warp back to the late 1950s or early 1960s.
A bit of background: Nowa Huta was a town created by Poland’s Communist government. Nowa Huta was intended as a proletariat monument to Socialism; it was intentionally built near Krakow, as a counter to the “intellectual influence” of its neighbor. At one time, it sported a huge statue of Lenin as a monument.
The plan didn’t exactly turn out as expected. While grey and industrial, the people of Nowa Huta were never committed Communists. In fact, some even tried to blow up the original statue of Lenin there in 1979.
The new statue continues this tradition of defiance. It’s a bright lemon-lime yellow-green color, and doesn’t exactly strike a heroic pose:
And yeah – it’s a fountain also. I’ll leave it to you to figure out where the water comes out. (smile)
The new statue is planned to be temporary. It’s intended to stimulate discussion of what the final monument should be.
Personally I think they should leave that statue in place permanently. “Lenin p!ssing on the world” is IMO a perfect metaphor for what Communism (and in particular, the Communist elite) did to the world between 1917 and 1990.
It also points out what the Left (and Leftist elite) continues to do today.
My Polish kin know full well the evil and pitfalls of socialism/communism and react accordingly.
If only the citizens of this country weren’t in such a rush to embrace it.
CLASSIC and the perfect way to portray Lenin, I read about that yesterday when it was linked on Drudge. i heartily suggest a statue of B. Hussein 0bama with golf club in hand and his back turned on everyone!
I would add only one thing (in keeping with the “p!ssing on the world” theme): Put a globe in front of him, turned in such a way that the stream from the fountain strikes the globe directly on Poland.
It’s nice to see somebody in Europe still knows some history.
Would they put one of PBO next to it, holding it for Lenin??
More like on his knees drinking from it as if it were the Fountain of Youth. 😀
I wish I lived somewhere where I had that kind of freedom of expression.
/sarc off
+100 !!!!!!! 😀
Actually, Pinto Nag – a similar statue featuring a copy of the US Constitution and a certain famous domestic political figure comes to mind for me. But I’m no sculptor.
Yep. 🙂
I see Lennin’s using the patented “European Overhand Grip”©™®.
A perfect example of Polish wit and humor. They should leave it up just as it is.
Hondo…”It also points out what the Left (and Leftist elite) continues to do today.”
Thanks, that was my thought as I read your article.
I love the Polish. I just wish we would have moved our bases from Germany there.