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A century after Lenin's death, he seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia

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• jacquesm 3y ago
  Can't wait for the week after Putin's death when everybody will have forgotten him. The only question is whether whoever will - inevitably - turn up as the new dictator will be better or worse.
• simonblack 3y ago
  But Harding in the US is different, his name is headline news every single day.
  • cafard 3y ago
    I suppose the return to normalcy hasn't exactly burned itself into the national consciousness. Wouldn't George Washington or Jefferson Davis be a better comparison?
    • cafard 3y ago
      (And actually I do now and then think of Harding in two contexts: Mencken's mockery of his inaugural address; the poetry Harding addressed to his mistress.)