Maybe it is this Lenin-Friedman-Smithian-Pauline influence on our world-view explains in part why Americans seem so untroubled by hunger in our world today.
Rivera's political sympathies were not those of the Rockefellers, and a battle ensued: Rivera was determined to include, among other mischievous images, the head of Lenin, and Nelson, probably acting on orders from Junior, told the artist that "your thrilling mural" had to be Lenin-less.
Yeltsin is Lenin-like only in his decisiveness.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, and it's a wholly strange thing to see a lonesome bust of Lenin leader of the Bolsheviks, guiding light of Communism, father of the revolution ignominiously stashed away in a storage closet, half-buried under a pile of toys like so much common rubbish.
But to have suggested that it was not great Comrades Lenin and Stalin and their correct understanding of historical necessity that had led to the Great October Revolution, but sunstorms?
After it was toppled, Dzerzhinsky's statue was dumped in a park next to the Central House of Artists, along with Lenins, Stalins and Brezhnevs.
But it is a crowded field of would-be Lenins trying to marshal the troops.
Of course, it is equally simple-minded to paint all Russians as Lenin-worshipers.
It is difficult to encounter the menacing, bullying Peter Verkhovensky and not feel that one has stumbled across a portrait of Lenin 50 years before his zenith.
It was Saturday morning, roughly 36 hours after the outbreak of violence in Osh, when the military vehicles showed up at the intersection of Lenin Street and Mamadzhan Street.
