And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, September 20, 2020
One that won't get pulled down by Antifa
Monument in honor of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth in 1961. The solid titanium monument is located in Moscow.
Never underestimate the stupidity and power of a faceless mob. Double down on a Russian mob controlled by whatever political group is now in power or trying to be in power.
That's a lot of titanium!
ReplyDeleteEnough to build a whole bunch of compressor blades for modern turbofan engines I suspect.
DeleteRussians would shoot rioters and sip vodka.
ReplyDeleteNever underestimate the stupidity and power of a faceless mob. Double down on a Russian mob controlled by whatever political group is now in power or trying to be in power.
ReplyDeleteNor should it. Unlike....
ReplyDeleteDidn't Yuri come down to earth with a bump later on?
ReplyDeleteMaybe that’s memorializing the height of his first bounce?
DeleteAre Black Russians trying to tear it down in order to demonstrate that their lives matter more than his?
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