#LeninLives - Russian Communist Party Lead Hashtag Revolution
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That might well be part of the reason why this is going on, the idea of putting up a statue of Stalin is puerile and statues of Brezhnev or Khrushchev would just be confusing/embarrassing, but Lenin is still connected to a lot of positive and progressive communist ideologies. Interestingly enough, the trend seems to be catching on with teens more than anybody else, perhaps because they're aware that it will irritate the government almost as much all the daredevil selfies did.
Both the English #LeninLives and the Russian '#селфислениным' (#SelfieWithLenin) have been trending across Twitter and Instagram as users have found creative ways to pose with the revolutionary leader. The trouble is, some of the more daring selfie artists have been trying to find a middle ground between statues and stunts, and a few statues have been damaged in the process. One poor statue in Moryakovsky lost his head in May at the hands of a selfie taker and then last month another poser tried to climb him and ended up breaking the torso off, leaving nothing but a pair of stoic, Bolshevist legs.
Happily incidents like that are still few and far between, the more important thing to bear in mind is that this will doubtlessly be great publicity for the Russian Communist Party, who are already the second largest political party in Russia (although the gulf between them and Putin's United Russia is pretty wide). The leader of the party Gennady Zyuganov, when asked about the trend, was very supportive. “I think Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin] will be thankful.” He said.
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