"If Lev can advertise KFC . . . "

"Leaping from the sealed train at the Finland Station, the only thing on Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov mind was that he could murder a Chicken Burrito". [From Jimmy Carr's forthcoming book, 'The Alternative Comedian's History of the Russian Revolution'.]

For the real story behind how a statue of Lenin turned up in Seattle, Washington, click on the link.

Hat tip to David W. at the Leftist Trainspotters list.

UPDATE

A reader from Seattle writes:

"Someone once rigged that statue's finger once so if you 'pulled lenin's finger' it signalled a tiny device near the ground that made a flatulent noise and then apologised in Russian."