# Affirmed:Lenin really is the tits **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 2, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021 "2010-05-02T12:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/101 "2010-05-04T22:28:29Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Is that a ‘yes’ or ‘no’? > > -XT Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/102 "2010-05-04T22:29:10Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Is that a ‘yes’ or ‘no’? The people’s global anarcho-capitalist hegemony doesn’t think in such terms, so why must we? ---
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/103 "2010-05-04T22:46:03Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Preach it, brother, whatever it is. > > That’s some really good shit you’re into. Welcome to the weird world of **adhay**. Thanks for your understanding. ---
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/104 "2010-05-04T22:48:48Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > The people’s global anarcho-capitalist hegemony doesn’t think in such terms, so why must we? Were “we” capable of rational thought there would be no whys, only answers. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/105 "2010-05-04T22:49:25Z")
> [@adhay](#): > > Welcome to the weird world of **adhay**. Thanks for your understanding. By a plain read, I think that “understanding” is one thing he’s not doing regarding your posts. Frankly I can’t blame him; I don’t understand your posts here either. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/106 "2010-05-04T22:52:25Z")
Well, isn’t it nice to think that the only problem that human beings face is some weird idea called “corporations”, and if only we’d get rid of them we’d have a utopia? ---
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/107 "2010-05-04T22:59:19Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > By a plain read, I think that “understanding” is one thing he’s not doing regarding your posts. > > Frankly I can’t blame him; I don’t understand your posts here either. Before you lapse in uncontrolled enthusiasm, I’d like to hear from **Jackmannii**. Good shit is good enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/108 "2010-05-04T23:14:22Z")
> [@adhay](#): > > Before you lapse in uncontrolled enthusiasm, I’d like to hear from **Jackmannii**. Good shit is good enough for me. “Preach it, brother, whatever it is,” (emphasis mine) doesn’t exactly scream comprehension, but hey, I suppose I could be wrong I guess. ---
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/109 "2010-05-04T23:22:14Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > “Preach it, brother, whatever it is,” (emphasis mine) doesn’t exactly scream comprehension, but hey, I suppose I could be wrong I guess. Never doubt the possibility. You’ll be much the wiser for it. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/110 "2010-05-05T00:25:55Z")
[QUOTE=adhay] Yes. [/QUOTE] Um…I’m afraid to ask this, but what do you base that on exactly? AFAIK, there isn’t really even a debate about the fact that the Soviet Union was basically hemorrhaging big time in their attempts to arm anyone who would even remotely call themselves socialists or vaguely look like they might oppose the US and The West™ during the cold war. They were GIVING the things away. Not exactly a good model for profit. -XT ---
**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/111 "2010-05-05T02:42:33Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Um…I’m afraid to ask this, but what do you base that on exactly? AFAIK, there isn’t really even a debate about the fact that the Soviet Union was basically hemorrhaging big time in their attempts to arm anyone who would even remotely call themselves socialists or vaguely look like they might oppose the US and The West™ during the cold war. They were GIVING the things away. > > Not exactly a good model for profit. > > -XT Exactly why they failed. We still give away a lot shit ourselves but the taxpayer picks up the tab, happy to help spread corporate-style freedom and democracy while subsidizing our so-called “defense” industries. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/112 "2010-05-05T02:54:21Z")
Ah…I see. Well, I suppose it was one of the myriad reasons they failed, to be sure. I have serious doubts that they would still be a going concern if they had simply made all those folks out there pay for their AK-47’s though… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/113 "2010-05-05T03:11:07Z")
> [@adhay](#): > > Were “we” capable of rational thought there would be no whys, only answers. Personally, I blame a congruence of sino-corporate power agglomeration and protoneo-fascist cryptosocialism. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/114 "2010-05-05T03:46:52Z")
Just as an aside, I’ve always wanted to see Lenin’s tomb. Just for the macabre factor. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/115 "2010-05-05T03:51:01Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Just as an aside, I’ve always wanted to see Lenin’s tomb. Just for the macabre factor. Time it carefully. You don’t want to go on one of the days when it’s closed because they’re pumping the corpse full of glycerin. It is, apparently, a full time job to maintain it. Wiping off mold, and what not. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/116 "2010-05-05T04:27:08Z")
That boy is as useless as tits on a boar hog. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/117 "2010-05-05T13:31:41Z")
I think that Marxist Leninism is great. Just a pity that it never ever worked, nor could work. ---
**Author:** ![Ispolkom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47774/32.png) [@Ispolkom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ispolkom)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/118 "2010-05-05T14:18:57Z")
> [@lalenin](#): > > Speaking as probably the only person in this forum who has lived under a Marxist-Leninist regime I must say that I found it to be utter crap. Not quite the only one, comrade. Lenin’s tomb really is a disappointment. You wait in line forever, and then they rush you through the tomb. With the rush, the low lighting, and the glass, you could just as well as gone to the wax museum at Gatlinburg. ---
**Author:** ![lalenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/119 "2010-05-05T14:22:51Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Can you start an “Ask the communism survivor” thread? I’ve a bunch of questions. I did a while back in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=410197) but I’ll be happy to answer any questions you have. ---
**Author:** ![lalenin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@lalenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lalenin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021/120 "2010-05-05T14:24:56Z")
> [@adhay](#): > > For those unaware, **lalenin** (talk about an ironically perfect user name) managed to escape Castro’s grasp when he was 12, IIRC. I wish I could have left when I was 12, that’s about the age I realized the communism was utter crap. It took me 15 more years to find a way out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/affirmed-lenin-really-is-the-tits/538021.md?page=7)