Sunday 24 January 2016

Vladimir Lenin Watches On Over Increasingly Indifferent Russians


A huge statue of Vladimir Lenin, October accomplish Square in Moscow, look, pedestrians on the streets of a revolutionary woman or mother can, or switch to Lenin Avenue, where the road a quarter of a century elapsed crossing after the fall of communism after brother. More walk, but reminds the father of the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, who deceased on January 21, 1924 - can be easily found.


But more and more people seem to mean little to many people in Russia, the birthplace of his revolution.Lenin monuments, busts and eponymous streets in honor of the leader of the October Revolution of 1917 still point skylines across the country, and his embalmed body still lies the mausoleum of the iconic tourist visit in the capital of the Red Square.July 19-1918 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin met with party members in a factory building area of ​​Zamoskvorechye, 'the Russian capital.Down street in the middle of the plate, a plaque reminds passersby that the communist leader Vladimir and Yaroslavl regions are addressed to employees via the balcony . and their heads vast Moscow metro, transports an average of seven million passengers each day, officially called the Lenin name.In, and some other former Soviet republics, particularly Ukraine, many Lenin statues were demolished down or scrapped after the fall of communism. But ordinary Russians that the continued presence of advertising and shopping facilities communist leader seemed to blend different views on consumer society, or more often just indifference,Each year, the main communist holidays such as May 1 or November 7 anniversary of the revolution, Lenin portraits of reducing monuments to gather a group of supporters around country.but aging, and some of them old enough to be the last vestiges of remember the Soviet era, but the era view with nostalgia, while others see resentment.These sights bother me, 'said 60-year-old Muscovite Victor Dzyadko whose hostility to the Soviet revolutionary tangible:' They must be sent to the museum. For the younger generation, which has grown in the Soviet system in the presence of Lenin, often little more than a historical Soviet era oddity.During, all these monuments have a political role, but they are only remnants of our history, Alexander Polyakovsky, a 20-year student.We witnessing a growing indifference, 'sociologist Lev Gudkov, head of independent pollster Levada Center said AFP.Lenin nothing younger generations only a vague idea that it conducted a founding board state.In poll by The Levada Center Lenin in 2015, only five per cent of people said they believe it will affect the views of those heady days of the early nineties future.In the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of important symbolic images the Soviet leaders, the most famous secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky outside KGB headquarters were demolished.But as the country plunged into chaos, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the first is often not alienate a large part of the population to the Soviet era, and the love gone untouched.President Lenin statues of Vladimir Putin, the rule a former KGB agent saw a revival of the Soviet tradition and control, followed Yeltsin's footsteps and leave it means leaving the preserved remains of Lenin be.That displayed outside the Kremlin leader, although opinion polls show that the majority of people in favor of finally saying goodbye and burial of Lenin's body. But that does not mean that Putin is surrounded by ex-Soviet security agents and charged downplayed the crimes of Stalinism, which is linked to the ideas and ideals Lenin.Allowing your right to rule, but only when this idea leads to the correct results He did not want to do what Vladimir Ilyich said Putin in a rare reference to the anniversary of Lenin's death.

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