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Lenin Statue

Post by Blackrod » Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:05 pm

Erected by the Marxist Lenin Party in Germany in Gelsenkirchen. Courts have decided it should remain.Bearing in mind Germany’s historic division should it be torn down by the people it offends or should everyone be allowed to portray their views ?

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by Vino blanco » Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:52 pm

They should erect one of Hitler next to it, for political balance.

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by FCBurnley » Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:00 pm

Might as well get a David Dunn statue at Turf Moor

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by Tribesmen » Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:00 pm

Wow Gelsenkirchen is a shi*ole to say the least hey whatever

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by shulgin » Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:27 pm

Aaron Lenin?

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by Marty Dobson » Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:27 pm

Tribesmen wrote:
Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:00 pm
Wow Gelsenkirchen is a shi*ole to say the least hey whatever
Beneath your middle class sensibilities it it ? Proper order to keep the statue. Home of Schalke 04. Home city of Manny Nauer, Ozil and Olaf Thon all world cup winners. Just like Burnley a former mining town with a large working class population proud of their heritage and their class. Football mad area. What's the Wow about are you easily impressed.?

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by Vino blanco » Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:37 pm

Have they got a Conservative MP as well?

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by CoolClaret » Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:39 pm

I personally don't want anything pulled down.

Find it bizzare/hypocritical how communist ideologies & symbols have a free pass in society - lead to some of the most brutal regimes that the world has ever seen!

Anyone that isn't aware have a read of the Holodomor genocide; absolutely frightening

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by professsorpiehead » Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:42 pm

The Marxist Leninist Feminist Gaiety's all right by me

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by timshorts » Sun Jun 21, 2020 5:35 pm

CoolClaret wrote:
Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:39 pm
I personally don't want anything pulled down.

Find it bizzare/hypocritical how communist ideologies & symbols have a free pass in society - lead to some of the most brutal regimes that the world has ever seen!

Anyone that isn't aware have a read of the Holodomor genocide; absolutely frightening
I want West ham pulled down in eight games time please.
Just for a few minutes they were in the bottom three.
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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by Clarets4me » Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:17 pm

Vino blanco wrote:
Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:52 pm
They should erect one of Hitler next to it, for political balance.
Probably had more in common, than what divided them ....

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by CoolClaret » Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:28 pm

timshorts wrote:
Sun Jun 21, 2020 5:35 pm
I want West ham pulled down in eight games time please.
Just for a few minutes they were in the bottom three.
I'll go with that 8-)

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sun Jun 21, 2020 9:10 pm

History should remain. Good and bad. How can we learn lessons without mistakes and history?

And one mans enemy is another mans hero.

We need to learn to stop being such a nation and generation of mard arses.
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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by Pstotto » Sun Jun 21, 2020 9:15 pm

You know I don't normally participate on this site but I had to log on to have a go at tribesman as well, because I won't have a single word wrong, said against Gelsenkirchen... Not to someone who swears by Essen Pils.

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by Cardclaret » Sun Jun 21, 2020 9:17 pm

Architect of the gulag system, 40 million dead. Wow

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by Pstotto » Sun Jun 21, 2020 9:39 pm

Essen Pils? 40 million dead? Gulag system? I think you mean the glug system.

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by AfloatinClaret » Sun Jun 21, 2020 10:28 pm

Marty Dobson wrote:
Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:27 pm
...Home of Schalke 04. Home city of Manny Nauer, Ozil and Olaf Thon all world cup winners. Just like Burnley a former mining town with a large working class population proud of their heritage and their class. Football mad area...
No doubt all true, but have you ever visited? It is a **** hole.

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by tim_noone » Sun Jun 21, 2020 10:40 pm

Pstotto wrote:
Sun Jun 21, 2020 9:15 pm
You know I don't normally participate on this site but I had to log on to have a go at tribesman as well, because I won't have a single word wrong, said against Gelsenkirchen... Not to someone who swears by Essen Pils.
:D

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by dsr » Sun Jun 21, 2020 11:11 pm

Cardclaret wrote:
Sun Jun 21, 2020 9:17 pm
Architect of the gulag system, 40 million dead. Wow
He died before most of that lot happened. You can't blame him for what he might have done. He wasn't Stalin.

There are a fair few despots in English statuary too. Few of them as recent as Lenin, mind, but the pre-Civil War kings were pretty tyrannous at times. If they want to keep Lenin, though Lord knows why, then they should keep him.

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by Chuckypad » Mon Jun 22, 2020 8:28 am

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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by Rileybobs » Mon Jun 22, 2020 10:11 am

They should rename Leningrad whilst we’re at it.
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Re: Lenin Statue

Post by Tribesmen » Mon Jun 22, 2020 12:22 pm

Marty Dobson wrote:
Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:27 pm
Beneath your middle class sensibilities it it ? Proper order to keep the statue. Home of Schalke 04. Home city of Manny Nauer, Ozil and Olaf Thon all world cup winners. Just like Burnley a former mining town with a large working class population proud of their heritage and their class. Football mad area. What's the Wow about are you easily impressed.?
Voted the worst city on an Irish web site in the last 20 years where Ireland have played .
I have Dutch and German friends and both said they think it's a hole .

Just telling it as it is .

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