Lenin statue collapses, kills man in Belarus

[Sol Invictus]

Associated Press
August 10 2009

MINSK, Belarus – Belarusian officials says that a massive statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin collapsed on a man who was hanging from it, killing him on the spot.

The Emergency Situations ministry said Monday that the 21-year-old man was drunk when he climbed onto the five-meter (16-feet)-high plaster monument early Monday and hung from its arm. It then broke into pieces and he was crushed.

The statue in the southeastern Belarus town of Uvarovichi was built in 1939.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is a staunch admirer of the Soviet Union, and the nation still has numerous Soviet-era monuments to the revolutionary leader.

[Piparskeggr]

Ya know, I had really hoped that folks descended from countrymen of some of my ancestors would be smarter than that.

Pip

[Tabiti]

Even dead he is still harmful

[SwordoftheVistula]

Ya know, I had really hoped that folks descended from countrymen of some of my ancestors would be smarter than that.

All the smart ones bailed from that shithole long ago and moved here

[Fortis in Arduis]

All the smart ones bailed from that shithole long ago and moved here

Bailed from a what?

Words of a what?

[SwordoftheVistula]

Words of a what?

From the anagram thread, the usertitle is an apt anagram of the screen name

[Octothorpe]

The dangers of international communism continue to claim victims . . .