Lenin looks as if he’s been shoved into a corner behind the information booth, next to the metro ticket dispensers.

Quite a bit larger, less verbose than the memorial in Мінск, very organic and so less polished than the one at his crash site. Tsoi obviously retains a strong connection in people’s memory and imagination. Something that’s so interesting is as with the John Lennon Wall in Prague there are people looking to Tsoi as an icon of their beliefs, though he died before they were born. The largest word here, Перемен, „change“ was the title of one of Кино’s very popular songs right at the end of the USSR. I think one facet of what people are looking to here is the USSR that might have been with Gorbachev, like some people look at the DDR that might have been.

Alexander Dugin:

Alexander Dugin argues that modern Western civilization is guided by the hostile intellects of fallen angels, manifesting as ultraliberal ideology and moral decay, a reality fully comprehensible only through the Christian worldview.

The evening program had several hundred attendees, compared with this morning’s 50 or so. The age range was quite similar. A coordinator announced the second secretary of a department at the Russian embassy was present, as well as the state heads of both BSW and Die Linke.