Damaged statue of Lenin in St Petersburg
Lenin's statue was left with a gaping hole
One of Russia's most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear.
The bronze statue, in the city of St Petersburg, was badly damaged before dawn on Wednesday, when the blast blew a hole in Lenin's coat.
No-one was hurt in the attack, the motive for which was unknown.
The statue, outside the Finland Station, marks the Bolshevik leader's return from exile in April 1917.
"Today at 0430 [0030 GMT] there was an explosion at the Lenin monument at the Finland Station in the city centre," a spokesman for the Saint Petersburg branch of the Russian emergency situations ministry told the AFP news agency.
"As a result of the explosion a crater of 80-100cm [31-39in] appeared on the monument," he added.
Lenin gave a speech at the railway station after his return from exile.
Later that year he would lead the revolution that overthrew the government and would take the Communists to power for more than 70 years.
St Petersburg was the cradle of the Russian Revolution and was renamed Leningrad after Lenin's death in 1924.
Lenin's embalmed body remains on display in a mausoleum in Moscow.
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It only took about 70 years for Russians to realize that Communism was a fascist ripoff of the Christian communitarian movement. Most people do not know of Marx's ideological war with the cooperative communitarian movement which he claimed was "unscientific". When researching the communitarian movement's history back in the late '60's I was quite surprised to find a proto-Communist commune in the US started before Marx wrote his books. I can't recall the name of the commune but it had all the earmarks of later Communist intolerance and dictatorial tendency and it failed along with most of the late 18th and early 19th century American intentional communities. That fate happened to the late '60's and '70's communes in America as well which is where I learned why communalism isn't a viable long term social structure and opted for a more generalized "communitarian" ideology.
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