Mother Ukraine and a Near-Moribund Leonid Brezhnev

(or, So Long and Thanks for the Titanium)

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So…. Ukraine did the Tulsa Turn-Around on the Mother of Ukraine statue. This year they decided to keep the titanium, lose the hammer & sickle, and added the Tryzub.

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From the Kyiv Post

From the Kyiv Post, August 6th, 2023:

“Near-moribund Leonid Brezhnev” – is there a better encapsulation of the former Soviet Union or Putin’s Russia?

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From a BBC video:

And another BBC video:

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From the New York Times:

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Stamps

Stamps + Banksy

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The Near-Moribund Leonid Brezhnev

Enough with the “pull my finger”, comrade.

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Prompt: Brezhnev’s eyebrows achieve sentience

At last report, these two were sharing a double-wide in Hades with seven very active chihuahuas.

And to round things out….

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Semi-Sequitur: Lenin’s Head

So what to do with all the useless Lenin Heads?

National Geographic addresses this very issue, in this very issue.

And Wired provides us with Lenin’s proboscis:

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Let’s end with some beautiful and inspiring Ukrainian music.