{"id":3692,"date":"2005-10-05T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T12:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:08:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:08:38","slug":"lenins-fungi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3692","title":{"rendered":"Lenin’s Occasional Fungi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Time has been unkind to Lenin, whose remains here in Red Square are said to sprout occasional fungi, and whose ideology and party long ago fell to ruins. Now the inevitable question has returned. Should his body be moved?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ew. Fungi?<\/p>\n

But it’s an interesting article about the controversy, with some very good quotes.<\/p>\n

“Our country has been shaken by strife, but only a few people were held accountable for that in our lifetime,” said the aide, Georgi Poltavchenko. “I do not think it is fair that those who initiated the strife remain in the center of our state near the Kremlin.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Uhm, ya think?<\/p>\n

Mr. Putin said in 2001 that he did not want to upset the civic order by moving the founder’s remains. “Many people in this country associate their lives with the name of Lenin,” he said. “To take Lenin out and bury him would say to them that they have worshiped false values, that their lives were lived in vain.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the shoe fits …<\/p>\n

Sometimes it’s the most healing thing in the world to actually admit you have worshiped a “false value”, and to make a clean break with the past. We’ve all done it. Perhaps not to the extent that we worshiped a despot, or a tyrant … but we’ve all put our values in the wrong places from time to time. Is it best to deny this, not admit the mistake, and keep the trappings of that “false value” all around you? Or is it better to just say, “You know what? We fucked up. Let’s start anew.”<\/p>\n

Besides, he’s sprouting fungi in the middle of Red Square and that is just disgusting.<\/p>\n

(via Ann Althouse<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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