Blowing out Lenin's Ass

[Pat K]

Bomb blows hole in Lenin statue
Damaged statue of Lenin in St Petersburg
Lenin's statue was left with a gaping hole

One of Russia's most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear.

The bronze statue, in the city of St Petersburg, was badly damaged before dawn on Wednesday, when the blast blew a hole in Lenin's coat.

No-one was hurt in the attack, the motive for which was unknown.

The statue, outside the Finland Station, marks the Bolshevik leader's return from exile in April 1917.

"Today at 0430 [0030 GMT] there was an explosion at the Lenin monument at the Finland Station in the city centre," a spokesman for the Saint Petersburg branch of the Russian emergency situations ministry told the AFP news agency.

"As a result of the explosion a crater of 80-100cm [31-39in] appeared on the monument," he added.

Lenin gave a speech at the railway station after his return from exile.

Later that year he would lead the revolution that overthrew the government and would take the Communists to power for more than 70 years.

St Petersburg was the cradle of the Russian Revolution and was renamed Leningrad after Lenin's death in 1924.

Lenin's embalmed body remains on display in a mausoleum in Moscow

[Tom Sawyer]

 
A surgical strike. 

[Jim Johnson]

What 's that guy looking at on the front of the statue...  an entry hole?  The hole we can see is an exit hole.

Maybe it's a message telling the Communists to 'blow it out their ass'...  likely it's a message saying, 'watch it, I have a big gun'.

In any case it was skillfully and artfully done.   

[KBCraig]

I've done that after campfire chili.

[dalebert]

After just reading the title, I was going to say that it's only called "blowing" when you do it in the front. When you do the ass, it's called "rimming". But then I saw the pic and figured out the context and decided I shouldn't say that. Oh wait...