#monument to Lenin

[alexxx-malev]

Russia. Monument to Lenin at the entrance of the Volga-Don canal Памятник Ленину у входа в Волго-Донской канал

[thererisesaredstar]

Happy October! (1971)

[muzantropic]

Monument. Владимир Потапов, 2014

[benkaden]

Ansichtskarte

MERSEBURG Lenin-Monument am Gotthardteich

Köthen: Heldge-Verlag KG 437 Köthen (P 1/72 IV-14-45 06 08 11 120)

Foto: [Erich] Kühn

1972

[scavengedluxury]

Lenin Monument, Mohács, 1986. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[ktotos-stuff]

[mockva]

Not everything has been banned in Russia yet. For example, in St. Petersburg you can still catch smelt from the bridge during spawning using a fishing rod without a reel, without a hook and without a fishing line.

[faradaysketches]

Lenin by Lev Kerbel, Museum of Socialist Art, Sofia. May 2023

I spent hours trying to find this museum. I asked 15 people on trams, tubes and walking. One person walked with me to show the way, another told me the wrong direction and one person asked for money after helping.

[insightfultake]

Kyrgyzstan Toppled Central Asia’s Tallest Lenin Statue: A Break from Russia’s Shadow

When the towering 23-meter statue of Vladimir Lenin was quietly dismantled in the Kyrgyz city of Osh, it didn’t just mark the end of a structure — it signaled a tectonic shift in Central Asia’s identity struggle. Central Asia’s tallest Lenin monument, once standing defiantly in Osh’s central square, is no more. Its removal wasn’t accompanied by fanfare, protests, or state propaganda. Yet, the silence was perhaps more telling than noise.

[eremaleksein]

Clothes V.I. Lenin / Event

(Одежда В.И. Ленина / Событие)

Date: 11.08.2024

On the square Lenin was wearing a coat; in SRV he was wearing a jacket.

(На площади Ленин одет в пальто, на СРВ он был в пиджаке.)

[schiellestentere]

путь к коммунизму всегда выстраивался через тернии к звездам, а владимир ильич до сих пор намекает на то, что надо продолжать бороться за светлое будущее. своим примером, идя большими шагами по всеобъемлющему простору, усыпанному звездной пылью, он показывает что достичь своей цели возможно, но для этого надо хорошо постараться, иначе твои идеи никогда не поразят сердца миллионов людей даже спустя многие тысячелетия.

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[muzantropic]

Красный Персей (Red Perseus). Алексей Азаров, 2020

[pattern-recognition]

they should erect monumental bronze statues of the Fitgirl-Repacks woman like Lenin

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

"Let's continue advancing along the victorious path of socialism"

Monumental poster depicting Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin during the anniversary of the revolution in Cuba, January 1979.

Via Socialism Pictures

[scavengedluxury]

Lenin monument (Imre Varga, 1974), Széchenyi square, Mohács, 1979. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[blackbird5154]

Terzo was a socialist

Maybe even a communist. There are too many hints to ignore. He seems to have been so preoccupied with the theme of class inequality that it ran as a leitmotif throughout his era.

1. The Popestar cover shows him as Lenin on the Palace of Soviets (an unbuilt monumental Soviet project). Lenin was a revolutor, the creator of the first socialist state in world history (USSR) and a Marxist theorist.

2. Papa is associated with Maschinenmensch from the movie "Metropolis" in many official artworks.

"Metropolis" was the main inspiration for the creation of Meliora. The world of Metropolis is stratified in the same way as Meliora's world. It highlights the problem of the gap between the workers and the ruling class. While the rich enjoy life, the working class is exhausted from maintaining the industrial machine. The top and bottom do not understand each other, they speak a different language, as in the myth of the Tower of Babel. "The mediator between the head and the hands must be the heart," says the preacher Maria, suggesting a peaceful way of settlement. At one point the peaceful preacher is replaced by the satanic Maschinenmensch, who excites the crowd and raises the working class to fight the ruling class by staging a revolution. The movie condemns this path, but Terzo may have a different opinion. After all, in this whole story it is with Maschinenmensch and not with Maria that he is identified.

3. Terzo's character in Meliora world, Mysterious Spectre, is essentially a revolutionary as well. When in the FTPTTP music video Madam Satan hands him a cup with a magical drink, he gets a vision of a world order in which oligarchs have enslaved the people with the power of electricity. Spectre refuses to participate in this scheme, becomes Papa and begins to fight for the redistribution of power.

4. Before performing Mummy Dust, Terzo said that Mammon (the demon of wealth and opulence) is the one deity we humans worship every day.

PAPA III: Basically we're gonna do one heavy motherfucker about one evil motherfucker. This motherfucker is so evil that he starts all wars, controls all poverty and make us hate each other and kill each other. And we all bow for him every day. So, we've written a song about him and his name is Mammon.

Splendid Lille, 2016/02/01

Although as a Satanist he is supposed to sympathize with demons, I think he was speaking in a negative way because—

5. —Also before Mummy Dust he mocked Trump saying "he's not president" and demeaning him in all sorts of ways.

PAPA III: This song is about greed, money, power... Trump!

September 17th at revolution rock festival in Mashantucket

I think Mammon and Trump embody the same principle for Terzo (since Trump is a businessman and billionaire who came to power), and that principle he hates.

So we know what he sees as the root of social evil (or one of the roots), and in the videos he seems to offer a quite concrete political program. It's also interesting in this sense to parse The Prologue, which I think is a manifesto for the third era. Here are a few quotes:

The devil’s fall came only after his great rebellion, a single and simple act of looking into the face of authority and saying, “I am glorious.”

Above the shining city of Meloria, dirigibles float like angels, ever watchful. Under the streets, Papa Emeritus III is gathering his new flock. He is a shepherd of black sheep, the sewers are his cathedral.

Going from “The Pinnacle to the Pit” is not the punishment it was meant to be. It is freedom to struggle against injustice, to march with crowns and sceptres. Here in the pit, we are all royalty now.

Papa Emeritus III. A prologue and introduction

[Part 9] [Encyclopedia of Terzo]