1917:
“And Trotzky, standing up with a pale, cruel face, letting out his rich voice in cool contempt, ‘All these so-called Socialist compromisers, these frightened Mensheviki, Socialist Revolutionaries, Bund—let them go! They are just so much refuse which will be swept into the garbage-heap of history!’ “
-- John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World (1922)

2005:
"The 60-foot statue [of Lenin], made of Ukrainian red granite, once lifted an admonishing hand over East Berlin's Leninplatz. In 1991, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was toppled, cut into 129 pieces and buried under a mound of sand in a forest outside of Berlin. Annoyed at the growing number of souvenir hunters swarming the site, local district councilors recently suggested digging up the pieces and disposing of them in a more environmentally appropriate manner, shredding or grinding up the stone and turning it into construction material."
-- WSJ, Aug.18, 2005, p. D18.

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