Word: leninism
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MEANWHILE IN RUSSIA ... Hungry for Art Lenin and Stalin have long been toppled, but how to fill their plinths? To get out of that cultural pickle, Muscovites have opted for a real pickle - or at least a big bronze one meant as "a monument to a truly Russian snack." Having largely missed out on Pop Art, Russians seem hungry to catch up. Other street art sprouting up: a potato, a tomato and, er, a chunk of processed cheese...
...people get angry with those labels. But we choose them because people want them. It is not Italians that buy these kinds of labels. The majority are German and Austrian." The Historic Line is dominated by Nazi images but also features others, including the Communist Collection with labels of Lenin and Che Guevara. I ask Lunardelli how he would respond to someone, like me, whose family members were killed or persecuted by the men he uses as a sales gimmick. "We are not against the feelings of this person," he replies. "I am not happy about...
...presentation of the gift occurred under a portrait of Vladimir I. Lenin, with Loengard snapping photographs which were quickly disseminated among most major news outlets once word of the prank became public...
...Good Bye Lenin! centers on the experience of East Berliner Alex Kerner, played by wide-eyed 24-year-old Daniel Brühl, after the fall of the Berlin Wall. After fainting during the Berlin riots, Alex’s mother (Katrin Sass) enters a deep coma for several months. Upon his mother’s release, the doctor cautions Alex that he must insulate her from any shocks, because a stressful event could kill her. Since his mother was fiercely loyal to the idealism of the DDR, Alex makes it his goal to keep her from finding out about...
...Good Bye Lenin...