Lenin's Tomb: What is to be done?

January 19, 2005 3:30 PM

Lenin's Tomb: Alternative Designs. (via The Argus)
posted by Ljubljana (7 comments total)

A panorama of the real Lenin mausoleum is here. (Needs QT)
posted by Ljubljana at 3:34 PM on January 19, 2005

Um, India? Is my knowledge of world history that bad?

Top post.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 3:44 PM on January 19, 2005

Great post.
There's some pretty creative stuff there; this one looks almost like a ziggurat.
The 20s were a more creative period in the USSR with regard to poster art, architecture and so on. It's a great pity that most Soviet buildings would end up looking like this.
posted by comraderaoul at 4:08 PM on January 19, 2005

I love the 1983-Sega-Games-Vector font at the top of the pages.

But that has nothing to do with the topic.
posted by sourwookie at 5:05 PM on January 19, 2005

Goddamn that's a good find. I love alternate designs for monuments, I've been looking for a book or site that contained at least some of the other submissions for the Vietnam memorial for years now.
posted by Vaska at 5:06 PM on January 19, 2005

Great stuff. I really like the descriptions that accompany some of them - I wish all of them had the artist's statement or vision included.
posted by milkrate at 6:22 PM on January 19, 2005

Great post!! The 20's sure did have some cool designs..

I wonder who GWB is going to commision to build his tomb?
posted by Balisong at 6:30 PM on January 19, 2005