Good one, mental floss, you must have chosen one of the more retarded transliteration conventions, especially in its half-assed rendering of Lenin's middle name.
I spent the first 5 minutes figuring out how "Ilyich" could possibly be spelt, the next five minutes wondering how "Vissarionovitch" would be spelt. Boy was I pleasantly surprised when the computer showed me how slow and dumb I was!

The whole of edwardian fashion should be resurrected if you ask me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayan_(accordion)

that was the most genius thing I have ever seen ever.

Shalyapin.

Good sir, I've never tried to glorify the USSR -- inherent to my defense of its public systems is my apprehension of the atrocities it has committed. I try to live with a worldview in which every nation, country and ideology is responsible for good as well as for evil deeds.
It is the obvious bias and political agenda behind the constant demonization of the Soviet Union that leads me to do things as silly as argue over the internet.

Now if only they had a simulation for the free education, health care and pensions USSR offered, I might refrain from calling this 'arrogant russophobic propaganda'.
Way to reduce the life of a Soviet citizen to that of a GULAG detainee who thinks cat food is tasty, I'm sure such a black & white worldview makes even the most outward flaws of the system you abide by seem insignificant.
Maybe I should start my own theme park, where every brand of every shoe you buy in a store that is never in deficit comes packed with the severed hand of a sweatshop worker.

surely that the whole of nazism was based on his philosophy and that he is therefore the root of all evil, infecting the reader with nihilism and inspiring him to contract syphilis the only time he'll ever make love, which will be in a brothel house.

It's nice it can walk now, I wonder how it'll sleep or defecate though

I'M the religious icon here, go back to ancient Egypt