{"id":8454,"date":"2023-11-02T14:39:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=8454"},"modified":"2023-11-02T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T19:39:37","slug":"mother-ukraine-and-a-near-moribund-leonid-brezhnev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=8454","title":{"rendered":"Mother Ukraine and a Near-Moribund Leonid Brezhnev"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(or, So Long and Thanks for the Titanium)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So…. Ukraine did the Tulsa Turn-Around on the Mother of Ukraine<\/strong> statue. This year they decided to keep the titanium, lose the hammer & sickle, and added the Tryzub<\/em>.
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From the Kyiv Post<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

From the Kyiv Post<\/a><\/strong>, August 6th, 2023:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Near-moribund Leonid Brezhnev<\/em>” – is there a better encapsulation of the former Soviet Union or Putin’s Russia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And another BBC video<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the New York Times<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stamps<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Stamps + Banksy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The Near-Moribund Leonid Brezhnev<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Enough with the “pull my finger”, comrade<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prompt:<\/strong> Brezhnev’s eyebrows achieve sentience<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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At last report, these two were sharing a double-wide in Hades with seven very active chihuahuas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And to round things out….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Semi-Sequitur: Lenin’s Head<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So what to do with all the useless Lenin Heads?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Geographic addresses this very issue, in this very issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And Wired<\/a> provides us with Lenin’s proboscis:<\/p>\n\n\n

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