Bronze Bust of Putin as Roman Emperor to Be Unveiled

[uhnope]

Source: Newsweek

The St Petersburg's Cossack community has promised to mark Russia’s anniversary of the allied victory over the Nazis by unveiling a bronze bust of Russian president Vladimir Putin depicted as a Roman emperor.

Andrey Polyakov, the leader of the St Petersburg Cossack group Irbis - a popular organisation which stresses the importance of traditional Slavic values and military valor - told local press the planned sculpture will be cast from bronze and installed near the underground station of Parnas in north St Petersburg.

According to Polyakov the idea to honour Putin with a monument arose a year ago when pro-Russian forces, backed by Putin, seized the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine.

“Such a remarkable event in the history of Russia such as the accession of Crimea has to be immortalised,” Polyakov told local news agency Nevskye Novosti yesterday. “I believe that Putin is one of our brightest, positive heads of state we have had in the last hundred years or so. This is a man who is worthy to have a monument in his lifetime.”

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/bronze-bust-putin-roman-emperor-be-unveiled-315094

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[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Oh, for the love of God!

[christx30]

8. That's next on the agenda. n/t

[Bosonic]

2. This would be a lot more amusing minus 8000 nuclear weapons

[gordianot]

3. Now what is the translation for "czar"?

Kinda fits no irony.

[NuclearDem]

32. Caesar, actually.

[gordianot]

38. In the house of Putin.

Wonder if the title will be hereditary?

[6000eliot]

4. This guy is a fucking LOON!

[freshwest]

5. All Hail Putin, Restorer of the Realm!

Imperialism and a PoliceState© all rolled into one. But none dare call it by its name...

[Cha]

11. "According to Polyakov the idea to honour Putin with a monument arose a year ago when pro-Russian

forces, backed by Putin, seized the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine."

I thought the story they concocted was that they got the Crimea because "voting"?

This reads like the Onion!

[freshwest]

13. They also had a huge party in Moscow to celebrate taking Crimea, too.

[Cha]

15. All the lies coming out of Russia make my head swim.. and having

those on here who cover for Putin but never miss a cheap ignorant pot shot at our President makes it even more disgusting.

[freshwest]

17. Well, Putin is a real man! But Obama, he can't be a man 'cause...

All revolutionaries smoke, according to the sociology professor from Penn State, as she lit up on the airplane...

You. Can. Not. Make. This. Shit. Up.

[Cha]

20. I saw that about the so very disgruntled Prof on the airplane.. poor thing.. sounds like the

ODS got a little out of hand with that one..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2997789/Woman-arrested-lighting-cigarette-American-Airlines-plane-renting-Obama-Penn-State-professor-PhD-hysterical-women.html

[freshwest]

22. Yes, I saw the video on a thread. And where she explains her sacrifice and etc, etc.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017252559#op

She's a real piece of work. The Wonkette takes no prisoners...

[treestar]

36. There are schools named after President Obama already

If I remember right. Which is way more of an honor when you think about it.

[Adrahil]

30. Yeah, they removed that fig leaf recently.

And his supporters here, instead of sheepishly acknowledging they'd been hoodwinked, took up the cry that it was OK because "the Crimeans wanted it."

[Cha]

41. Unreal.. the cult of rw putin on a Democratic site.

[progree]

6. Thank God becuz we need a real man & powerful leader to stand up to the Maidan Fascists! nm

[font color="gray", size=1]sarcasm thingy[/font]

[Oneironaut]

7. This is really creepy if true.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. This is the guy Fux Noise admires so much

[Kelvin Mace]

10. These Russians are crazy!

[Cha]

12. Oh please.

[freshwest]

14. Kind of looks like Napoleon Bonaparte, too. Just sayin'

[Cha]

16. Yeah, and we know what happened to him.

[freshwest]

18. Fatal case of hand in his jacket, I believe. I think Putin actually will get away with it all.

[Cha]

21. We'll see.

[freshwest]

23. He's twice as rich as the Koch brothers.

It's gonna take a lot to get him out of power.

[appalachiablue]

19. Oh no. Megalomania much? A laurel wreath on the head too?

[Monk06]

24. Can't be too hard on the Russians for hero worship

[trusty elf]

25. ......

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[freshwest]

29. Heh!

[treestar]

34. LOL

[treestar]

35. Where are those?

Hilarious!

[PersonNumber503602]

37. GWB's basement.

[SoapBox]

26. Good GAWD...

He really does want to be thought of as a Dictator.

[MBS]

27. Wow.

I loved also this part (bold highlights and exclamation points are mine) :

Polyakov listed, among Putin’s achievements, the Russian president’s apparent ability to (!!!) “bring order and end wars” in the territories of Georgia and Moldova, where Russia has been backing separatist efforts to secede from the countries they are currently parts of. . . “Thank God we do not have war,” Polyakov added, making no reference to the presence of Russian soldiers in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region who have been fighting government loyal forces since last year.

These days it gets harder and harder to tell the news from the Onion.

It would be funny if the situation were not so dangerous.

[freshwest]

28. Pegs the Irony Meter:

[davidthegnome]

31. Alright then.

So, the man who is engaged in crushing their economy, reviving a police state, terrorizing and killing their neighbors... is going to get a statue... you know what this means. We should make a statue of Dick Cheney. After that, we should make a pure gold statue of Sara Palin for all of her contributions to the world that were, after all, pure gold. After all, Cheney has accomplished about as much as Putin, and Sara Palin is his neighbor. Maybe we can even get our Russian friends to send us a Putin statue too, then we can put all three of them up in DC somewhere. We'll call them the three (fucking morons) amigos! We'll make Cheney a Norse God - maybe Odin? We'll present Palin as Aphrodite, and once a year we'll have a National holiday where we can all get together and.... point and laugh and throw things at the statues.

What a bunch of idiots.

[treestar]

33. ROFL

Lucky people in that subway station!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

39. I'm calling Poe's law on this one. nt

[sdfernando]

40. Just missed the Ides of March....

Oh well, there is always next year!

[daleo]

42. It's a lot like Reagan worship

U.S. Conservatives want a statue of Reagan in every little nook and cranny of the country, Russian conservatives seem to be the same about Putin.