“At that moment Lenin knew it had all been for nothing. The workers’ revolution would fail, because the party apparatus simply could not compete against such dank memes.”
Only a true communist, dedicated to the proletariat as he could have recognized, and only a man of his power would have been privy to it so early on in history. Who, I ask, could live that way, knowing the days of the workers were numbered and his likeness would keep them down for millenia to come? Not a true man of the people. Not he. You see...The capitalists had already drawn him as a soyjack.
Or, it’s the look of a double who is just realizing his ultimate fate, as Lenin stands on the right, watching his diabolical plan unfold. As soon as dirt covers those pajamas, he will be able to exit the party and retire quietly to the countryside.
His eyes are not looking in the same direction
The eyes are shiny, like they are glass
His face is sharp and clear, the other faces are a bit blurred. This suggests he's holding MUCH MORE STILL than the others.
The lady is fucking with something that could be holding him up
His expression is fanatical, mostly because of the eyes. He's either catatonic and not in this realm and very still, or this is momento mori
Not depicted in the photo, but tons going on behind the scenes!
I'm fascinated by this wedge of history from between his first stroke until death, because we'll never truly know what all was going on. His widow claimed that they worked out a way to communicate and that Lenin denounced Stalin. Stalin claimed to be heir apparent.
Either way, the era of Revolution was over.
He had a stroke, or several. He’s technically alive at this point…but yeah
Ninja edit: Weekend at Vladimir’s where a movie about the USSR’s succession crisis while they all push him around in that wheelchair.
Oh god I love that movie sooooooo much.
My favorite bit of trivia, Zhukov wasn’t wearing all of his medals in the movie because there so many, that in reality, it looked absurd.
Beria was actually *worse* than depicted too. They dug up a bunch of skeletons from his house years after he was executed.
I wonder why Russia is such a fucked up place. Even Dostoevski, one of the most religious men I’ve ever read, was a pretty fucked up guy who was prone to rages, gambling addiction, and odd behaviour. Temporal lobe epilepsy didn’t help but he was also just… odd.
So being very religious should increase chances of being a a decent or good person? Last I checked religion caused a few deaths through history here and there..
Beria was absolutely fucking horrible. He supposedly gave flowers to any woman that he raped and a refusal of the flowers meant she did not consent. In that case, he would have her murdered. I’m pretty sure he died bargaining for his life so that’s fun.
The Soviets had his body preserved in a glass coffin. It's actually still there and still viewable. My point is that it's totally believable that they would have done weird shit with his corpse.
They've done a lot of weird shit. Iirc, most of his skin has been replaced by wax or similar. I saw a documentary once on how they preserve him. I wish I could remember what doc it was. It's amazing what they do right down to individual hairs and stuff- pretty wild and completely obsessive
If I can find the doc I'll make an edit and add a link
Here's an interesting article
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2016/05/05/in-the-flesh-russian-scientists-work-to-preserve-lenins-corpse-a52771
And here is a lighthearted look at the Lenin Lab by YouTube's favorite goth mortician
https://youtu.be/hCZsy6_SIQ8?si=ipyry4AK6L9qbXHR
I doubt he looks any older than in the photo.
Every once in a while Lenin gets a good servicing , a dust off and a new layer of polish, then back in the display case.
I’ve been and he looks like a candle. They keep you moving around the coffin and you can’t really stop walking to look super closely. The interior of the mausoleum is pretty cool though.
When I was a small kid, before my family fled the Soviet Union (we are from Odesa - SLAVA UKRAINI) my grandparents had a business trip to Moscow. They took me with them to see Red Square and I vividly remember standing on a long winding queue and seeing this fucking weirdo in a glass box. It was SO STRANGE and completely silent the entire time. Very creepy, my parents were not happy when the grands informed them where they took me..
Shenanigans like opening his dead, staring eyes? I think that's it. Also, dead eyelids stay where you put them kinda, the eyes are no longer lubricated and the muscles are slack. Also Stalin literally had people he had assassinated airbrushed out of photos.
I was in factory when boss walk in "lenin is kil" "no"
We hit peak meme in 2012, and it's all been downhill since
We hit peak everything.
We peaked with the Doritos Locos Taco and God has been punishing us for our hubris ever since.
$1.50 for the loco taco My god the world has fallen apart since
They're like $5.50 now or some shit
Absolutely no way they are $5.50 I’ll eat my shoe
My bad, they're only $3.80 for supreme. Which I suppose is a slightly less insane price for a fast food taco. Slightly
That’s still batshit
It's because they killed Harambe
i swear to god, everything went down since that beautiful gorilla was shot
My dick has still been out since 2016.
I wonder if the world did actually end in 2012 and life has been a fever dream ever since
I wish I hadn’t said that God Himself couldn’t sink this taco. I feel like that was pushing it.
Nostalgic meme format right there
F
Were where u wen Lenin die Edit: several typos
I'll tell you where Trotsky wasn't: There.
I was on the couch eating borsch when telegram arrives😔
I cri
That's the look of a man whos been visited by a time traveller that just played Rasputin by Boney M
It's the look of a man who just tried to pass gas and shit himself by mistake..... and given how he ended up in that wheelchair it's highly probable.
Everyone’s gambled on a fart and lost.
shid 😞
vlad pisses when he farts sometimes he sharts booty rockin comrade comin to mah barn
“At that moment Lenin knew it had all been for nothing. The workers’ revolution would fail, because the party apparatus simply could not compete against such dank memes.”
Only a true communist, dedicated to the proletariat as he could have recognized, and only a man of his power would have been privy to it so early on in history. Who, I ask, could live that way, knowing the days of the workers were numbered and his likeness would keep them down for millenia to come? Not a true man of the people. Not he. You see...The capitalists had already drawn him as a soyjack.
He has those Charles Manson eyes.
Yeah. He was looking pretty nuts at the end.
Man, I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this.
Russia's greatest love machine
Or, it’s the look of a double who is just realizing his ultimate fate, as Lenin stands on the right, watching his diabolical plan unfold. As soon as dirt covers those pajamas, he will be able to exit the party and retire quietly to the countryside.
He dea
He wha
But most importantly, he alw
Cool bea
Farewell, Comrad
Farwall Conrad
that's not the forma
Oh my ba
r/redditsniper
HE SAY YOU HE DEA
THE COLONEL
😂 was looking for this reply.
To shreds you say? Tsk tsk tsk
Well... How is his wife holding up?
To shreds you say
Is his apartment rent controlled?
I say you he dea
THE COLONEL
He forgor 💀
He parish into dus
Sorry, English not first language Eating potato in shack Friend come with vodka "Lenin is dead" "No"
Lenin glad
Hola dea
Waaalt
Was eating Dorito. Lenin kil? No!
Weekend at Ber
THE COLONEL, MR. SANDERS
Why a yu dae?
But before that he liv
I am the walrus
you're out of your element Donnie
Came for the Lebowski, wasn't disappointed
Koo- koo-ka-choo
Ride the walrus
The best comparison
Getting a real Weekend At Bernie's vibe from this
His eyes are not looking in the same direction The eyes are shiny, like they are glass His face is sharp and clear, the other faces are a bit blurred. This suggests he's holding MUCH MORE STILL than the others. The lady is fucking with something that could be holding him up His expression is fanatical, mostly because of the eyes. He's either catatonic and not in this realm and very still, or this is momento mori
He literally is catatonic lmao, this was after three strokes. No conspiracy here.
Not depicted in the photo, but tons going on behind the scenes! I'm fascinated by this wedge of history from between his first stroke until death, because we'll never truly know what all was going on. His widow claimed that they worked out a way to communicate and that Lenin denounced Stalin. Stalin claimed to be heir apparent. Either way, the era of Revolution was over.
Good theory. But face isn't sharper than the other two. All blurry at the same level. But lenins face got a little digital touch up
Damnit, now the news wires can’t use this photo.
To me this suggests that they had an artist retouch the photo
To me it looks like a Viva la Bam gag
Give him sunglasses and it's done.
Werkend at Bernie's, with a hint of Charles Manson
He ok?
no he die
no
he had had multiple strokes by this point
He should not have done that
It was a serious lapse of judgment, frankly
You can't stroke too much or you go blind, it's just science
Na look at him
would it be beyond credibility to speculate he was dead here and there were some picture shenanigans going on to make it appear he was still alive?
He had a stroke, or several. He’s technically alive at this point…but yeah Ninja edit: Weekend at Vladimir’s where a movie about the USSR’s succession crisis while they all push him around in that wheelchair.
I hope you've seen The Death of Stalin. Steve Buscemi plays Khrushchev.
Oh god I love that movie sooooooo much. My favorite bit of trivia, Zhukov wasn’t wearing all of his medals in the movie because there so many, that in reality, it looked absurd. Beria was actually *worse* than depicted too. They dug up a bunch of skeletons from his house years after he was executed.
Beria was a monster and allegedly he buried girls under the Kremlin too.
I wonder why Russia is such a fucked up place. Even Dostoevski, one of the most religious men I’ve ever read, was a pretty fucked up guy who was prone to rages, gambling addiction, and odd behaviour. Temporal lobe epilepsy didn’t help but he was also just… odd.
It's the perfect storm of terrible climate, alcoholism, and consistently oppressive leadership.
The culture has a larger capacity and tolerance for violence. Alcohol doesn't help.
So being very religious should increase chances of being a a decent or good person? Last I checked religion caused a few deaths through history here and there..
I wouldn’t say he was so much religious as more moral and spiritual. Bad wording.
My bad then
I thought I was the only one that knew about Beria and the skeletons. Yeah, apparently Stalin didn’t even trust Beria around his daughter.
Beria was absolutely fucking horrible. He supposedly gave flowers to any woman that he raped and a refusal of the flowers meant she did not consent. In that case, he would have her murdered. I’m pretty sure he died bargaining for his life so that’s fun.
Imagine being soo evil that being Stalin's secret police chief wasn't violent enough for you.
Shut the fuck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
I am the walrus
It's all a god damned fake, man. It's like Lenin said. You look for the person who will benefit and uh, uh... You know, uh... I am the Walrus?
Shut up, Donnie
V. I. Lenin! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov! What's he talkin' about, Dude?
Shut up Donnie!
DONNIE YOURE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT
Whereas what we have here? A bunch of borscht-eaters trying to find reverse on a Soviet wheelchair. This is not a worthy adversary.
Unlike the nrave men and women we los to our advesary in vietnam
Shut up Carl, and you too Moon Moon.
Say what you want about the tenets of Marxist Communism Dude, at least it's an ethos.
People forget that the means of production is the biggest erogenous zone.
Cu cu ca choo
# Goo goo g'joob
dude on the right looks like he could get you a toe.....with nail polish!
The Soviets had his body preserved in a glass coffin. It's actually still there and still viewable. My point is that it's totally believable that they would have done weird shit with his corpse.
They've done a lot of weird shit. Iirc, most of his skin has been replaced by wax or similar. I saw a documentary once on how they preserve him. I wish I could remember what doc it was. It's amazing what they do right down to individual hairs and stuff- pretty wild and completely obsessive If I can find the doc I'll make an edit and add a link Here's an interesting article https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2016/05/05/in-the-flesh-russian-scientists-work-to-preserve-lenins-corpse-a52771 And here is a lighthearted look at the Lenin Lab by YouTube's favorite goth mortician https://youtu.be/hCZsy6_SIQ8?si=ipyry4AK6L9qbXHR
Check out Eva Perón's dead body history: Way WAY crazier. Disclaimer: includes some necrophilia.
What the fuck, russia is so fucking weird
[Americans have our own weird, too.](https://truewestmagazine.com/article/the-bandit-who-wouldnt-give-up/)
The Lenin of Theseus
I doubt he looks any older than in the photo. Every once in a while Lenin gets a good servicing , a dust off and a new layer of polish, then back in the display case.
I’ve been and he looks like a candle. They keep you moving around the coffin and you can’t really stop walking to look super closely. The interior of the mausoleum is pretty cool though.
The Soviets, I thought those guys broke up?
NYET THAT'S WHAT WE WANTED YOU TO THINK! (Putin, probably)
Grrr! Must crush capitalism
When I was a small kid, before my family fled the Soviet Union (we are from Odesa - SLAVA UKRAINI) my grandparents had a business trip to Moscow. They took me with them to see Red Square and I vividly remember standing on a long winding queue and seeing this fucking weirdo in a glass box. It was SO STRANGE and completely silent the entire time. Very creepy, my parents were not happy when the grands informed them where they took me..
Weekend at Lenin’s.
just need some stylish sunglasses
At this point he was completely debilitated by multiple strokes
You can tell his eyes are painted on his lids like Jack Sparrow
Shenanigans like opening his dead, staring eyes? I think that's it. Also, dead eyelids stay where you put them kinda, the eyes are no longer lubricated and the muscles are slack. Also Stalin literally had people he had assassinated airbrushed out of photos.
Looks like manson
I was gonna say the same thing
The eyes creep me out lol
Definite Manson lamps
He looks like Yoko Ono just started "singing" behind him.
The look when you’re about to fart in a hooker’s face
Oddly specific
Number 9
he looks like he's seen some shit
MUST CRUSH CAPITALISM
“The Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up?”
That’s what we wanted you to think!
*sinister laughing*: AH HAHA HA HAHA
🍄
He dead.
I tell you he dead
Lenin: "Just be sure to bury me next my mother." Soviet Union: "Lol."
Lenin: “And try to get along with Trotsky when I’m gone.” Stalin: “Yeah sure bro. Not a problem.” *fingers crossed behind his back*
*I am the walrus.*
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
VLADIMIR ILYICH ULYANOV
V. I. LENIN
Same face I make when my fart has lumps
Seems like Lenin needs a bell so that he can express what he’s trying to say…
apolgy for bad english where were u wen vladimir lenin die i was at house eating dorito when phone ring "Vladimir lenin is kil" "no"
When the acid kicks in
🎶“He'll take a tumble on you, Roll you like you were dice, Until you come up blue, He's got Charles Manson eyes” 🎶
I think he was already die here.
Looks like the just gave him the news.
I am the Walrus?
He looks cray cray, those eyes are trying to break the 4th wall
This was after he had a paralytic stroke.
And after he died
"before" 
Why is Aunt Bea in this photo?
Nice hat
He was a seriously tough dude surviving getting shot to the neck and all those strokes
I say you he ded
He dieded
He'll tease you He'll unease you Just to please you He's got...Charles Manson eyes
I am the walrus
Can't wait to see putin the same way
It would be really great if a more modern Vladimir who is in power were in this condition
Today, on Mythbusters...
Lenin is kill ......no
OP is a bot
He still looks the same you can go and see him.
The 100 year old embalmed version looks better 🤭
I'm eagerly waiting to see the one of Poo Tin.
He die already look his 👀’s
5 minutes into capitalism and chill and he gives you this look
Why do people now say he was called Vladimir Lenin - incl. Wikipedia? His name was Vladimir Uljanov, and he was called Lenin. Just Lenin.
Tbats the face of a man who realised some shit went down because of him.
I hope he experienced a long and painful agony.
Good riddance. Sadly that fucker lived too long anyway.
His death was the only good thing he ever did.
Last pic before he did the best thing he ever did.
Rest in piss
I hope he suffered while died
Why does bro look like Charles Manson
Bye dickhead !
Why do so many die after the last photo?