Businessmen and strippers join the party at Lenin's house

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/24/wlenin24.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/24/ixnews.html

Russian communists reacted with dismay yesterday after they discovered that strippers and drunken businessmen had turned the birthplace of Lenin, once one of the most hallowed museums in the land, into a wild party zone.

The Lenin Memorial Museum, a complex of buildings with Lenin's home at its heart in the central Russian town of Ulyanovsk, admitted throwing open its doors to corporate parties in an attempt to raise revenues.

Museum staff acted as waiters at vodka-tasting parties and other events hosted by local banks and factories that often degenerated into binges with strippers, local newspapers reported.

It is all a far cry from Soviet times, when dutiful citizens travelled to the museum on the banks of the Volga to pay homage at the simple house.

Not really sure how many people would want to relive "the gulag experience"

Paying for torture, beating, starvation, endless work, Oh' and daily re-education classes.

That's the ticket.

even under a bush regime is quite ridiculous.

Except for the endless work days. But of course, we get paid as opposed to being a slave.

A better comparison would be our Indian Reservations in the late Nineteenth Century.

And our little experiment at Guantánamo may be small in scale; but it's right up there with the best of them when it comes to brutality.

they say it like it's a bad thing.

From the ol' Lenin/Trotsky/Stalin "bullet-to-the-back-of-the-head".