# 50 years on, Lenin still brooding over one of the most inaccessible places on Earth **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038 "2007-01-23T03:00:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/21 "2007-01-23T14:00:34Z")
Say, that Bust of Lenin in Antarctica would go really well with the **Headless Statue of Lenin** in Las Vegas! [http://www.roadsideamerica.com/sights/sightstory.php?tip\_AttrId=%3D12551](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/sights/sightstory.php?tip_AttrId=%3D12551) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/22 "2007-01-23T14:01:38Z")
Appropriately enough, considering the location of that bust: > [@](#): > > The Lenin statue’s head is frozen inside a block of ice within the bar’s walk-in freezer, reportedly viewable by patrons who buy the expensive stuff and ask nicely for a peek. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/23 "2007-01-23T14:06:29Z")
They should keep it in a big aquarium, instead. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/24 "2007-01-23T14:22:45Z")
> [@](#): > > I was wondering, though… how do we know that the Lenin in Antarctica isn’t the real body of Lenin, preserved by the cold and dry (the statue in the picture being the tomb marker), and the one in Red Square isn’t just a wax or animatronic replica? Don’t be ridiculous! That body in Red Square is the Real Lenin, put in that Glass Coffin by the Seven Dwarves after he bit the apple that Stalin gave him. He’s only waiting for his Anastasia to come and kiss him so he can wake up and go off to the Worker’s Paradise in the sky. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/25 "2007-01-23T14:47:06Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] put in that Glass Coffin by the Seven Dwarves [/QUOTE] You mean miners? Oh, sure just because they’re workingmen you have to belittle them and undermine their stature. Is this what you mean when you say, “Rightsizing?” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/26 "2007-01-23T14:55:13Z")
[QUOTE=Diceman] > [@Only Mostly Dead](#): > > Is anybody else amused by the team’s logo? Well that’s…interesting. Must be a deleted scene from _Happy Feet_. [/QUOTE] Coming soon: _The Director’s Cut: More than their Feet are Happy!_ Soundtrack by **Cunctator**. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/27 "2007-01-23T15:18:01Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] You mean miners? Oh, sure just because they’re workingmen you have to belittle them and undermine their stature. Is this what you mean when you say, “Rightsizing?” [/QUOTE] No, silly. The Seven Dwarves were the seven 1960’s mainframe computer companies that weren’t IBM. They remained true to their proletarian roots and refused to swear fealty to IBM’s 1960’s-era Undead Corporate Minions, and were sadly betrayed. They escaped to the wilderness and lived in a small way off the occaisional DP contract and mainrenance fee. But they would have their revenge… ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/28 "2007-01-23T15:27:24Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Don’t be ridiculous! That body in Red Square is the Real Lenin, put in that Glass Coffin by the Seven Dwarves after he bit the apple that Stalin gave him. He’s only waiting for his Anastasia to come and kiss him so he can wake up and go off to the Worker’s Paradise in the sky. [/QUOTE] The story i heard: sometime in the late 1930’s lenin’s body began to deacy (big time). Stalin had the morticians shot, but there was no solution-water had leaked inot the tomb, and lenin was putrid. So, the body was creamted, and a wax dummy was substituted. Anybody that knows the details is long dead, having been shot or sent to Siberia. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/29 "2007-01-23T16:50:35Z")
The capitalist pigs should have plastered him with advertising logos. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/30 "2007-01-23T16:58:03Z")
[QUOTE=wolfman] I had always heard that permanent structures were nearly impossible on Antarctica. The snow just continually builds and covers every thing. I watched a discovery channel program on the new Antarctica station that is designed to be raised 10 feet every 20 years years so it doesn’t disappear. So how come Lenin isn’t 50 feet under snow? Is it just a part of Antarctica that gets no weather? [/QUOTE] Another article said that the base is buried under five meters of snow. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/31 "2007-01-24T00:18:42Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] > [@PastAllReason](#): > > Huh. The first thing I thought of was Shelley’s Ozymandias: Dammit, I wanted to be the one to say that! Well done. [/QUOTE] What a happy thing to be fleet of finger! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/32 "2007-01-24T04:50:03Z")
The link to the porkin penguins said that the bust of Lenin is on the top of a building. The link in the OP shows just Lenin. So, it stands to reason that the building is under snow. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/33 "2007-01-24T22:10:45Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] Why are the two penguins porkin’ each other?! :eek: :dubious: 😃 [/QUOTE] My reaction exactly. :eek: :dubious: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/34 "2021-11-19T03:07:02Z")
If @Lumpy can revive his [Cursed Col. Sanders thread with an updated pic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursed-idol-of-colonel-sanders-retrieved-from-depths/489227), I think I should do the same with my Lenin thread: > **[The Southern Pole of Inaccessibility](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/12/the-southern-pole-of-inaccessibility.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038/35 "2021-11-19T03:48:38Z")
> The Americans stayed there for less than a week taking measurements, but before they left they, in an act of mischief, rotated the bust of Lenin—which originally faced towards Moscow— so that it now faced Washington DC. > The Russians returned to the site for one last time in 1967. So, what, the Russian didn’t rotate it back? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038.md?page=1)