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...elections - and it's honest elections we're getting now," says Svistovich. In Donetsk in the industrial heartland of the east, some 700 km from Kiev, anger about the election's annulment is still rife. Most people here voted for Yanukovych, and for nine nights running, demonstrators gathered in Lenin Square to denounce "the vile Americans who hired their vile agent Yushchenko to split Ukraine and grab it piecemeal," as one recent speaker put it. Leading eastern politicians are threatening to secede and join Russia if Yushchenko wins. Says Alexander Zats, a member of the Donetsk regional legislature: "Should...
...fabrications is all too familiar now—Iraq would be a “cakewalk,” there was “no doubt” that Saddam had nukes, Mohammad Atta had met with Iraqi agents in Prague—but as another practiced demagogue, Vladimir Lenin, once said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth...
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...