The monumental hero of Soviet days, a lenin statue that has returned to a one time model communist city in Poland is now a small, green man urinating from atop a black plinth. The ironic take on the Russian revolutionary stands in Nowa Huta, a working class suburb of Krakow, to offer a bit of comic closure with its often difficult communist past. "Are we capable of ascribing a funnier, surrealist meaning to this past, of bursting the bubble, of showing ...Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Polish City's New Statue Cuts the Urinating Lenin Down
The monumental hero of Soviet days, a lenin statue that has returned to a one time model communist city in Poland is now a small, green man urinating from atop a black plinth. The ironic take on the Russian revolutionary stands in Nowa Huta, a working class suburb of Krakow, to offer a bit of comic closure with its often difficult communist past. "Are we capable of ascribing a funnier, surrealist meaning to this past, of bursting the bubble, of showing ...
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