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Lenin with His Cat, Speaking to an American Journalist in the Kremlin, 1920 [468x631] (imgur.com)

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[–]TehMisterPickles 55 points56 points ago

Lenin strait up looks like a James Bond villain with that cat

[–]BeatlesForSale 36 points37 points ago

His cat looks so incredibly happy. It looks like it's pulling the :3 face.

[–]dopplerdog 38 points39 points ago

Obviously a proletarian cat

[–]BeatlesForSale 38 points39 points ago

Proletaricat*

[–]ace101btm 37 points38 points ago

http://i.imgur.com/jaJcf.jpg

[–]Nukeman 4 points5 points ago

You are today's winner of the internet. Congratulations!

[–]randy9876 7 points8 points ago

oooohhh yeah. Scratch my back Vladimir.

[–]RorschachDR1 14 points15 points ago

Comrade wuss wuss

[–]nnikb7 12 points13 points ago

The original redditor.

[–]mugerino 4 points5 points ago

Red(party)ditor

[–]starfishluvsyou 21 points22 points ago

Wait, wait, wait....he had a cat?

Maybe we were wrong about this guy...

[–]gigantepicante 11 points12 points ago

Damn, so much cat hair on that suit now.

[–]davisbot 11 points12 points ago

TIL Lenin's cat kind of looked a little bit like Lenin.

[–]jacobcg -4 points-3 points ago

Came here to say this

[–]Taphophile 25 points26 points ago

Even Lenin can get upvotes on Reddit with a cat. . .

[–]TheResPublica 9 points10 points ago

Sort of made /r/politics suddenly make sense to me.

[–]Common_Man 6 points7 points ago

Bolshekitty

[–]Melodic_692 22 points23 points ago

In Soviet Russia, pussy licks you!

[–]ytayj 12 points13 points ago

Finally, a Soviet Russia joke that actually matches the context.

[–]moist_towelette 7 points8 points ago

=^.^=

[–]Toshiro_Mifune 13 points14 points ago

Submitted 1 day ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/ybg5q/lenin_with_his_cats_date_unknown_468x631_xpost_r/

Edit: btw, would that be a Communist Party cat?

[–]marquis_of_chaos[M] 18 points19 points ago

I've removed the first posting. The new post is because the date and location have been identified.

Edit: Please stop downvoting Toshiro_Mifune. They were only pointing out an apparent repost before I added the explanatory comment.

[–]MrDemaree 1 point2 points ago

Awesome username, I just watched Yojimbo for the first time a couple weeks ago :)

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

best movie of all time contender

[–]The_Didlyest 0 points1 point ago

There's a whole series of party cat.

[–]HOWDEHPARDNER 2 points3 points ago

DAE think lenin always seems to be wearing the same grey tweed jacket and grey pants? Maybe because all the pictures are black and white? - i dunno.

[–]Khayembii 16 points17 points ago

Lenin always lived a pretty simple life. It's not surprising that he didn't have a huge wardrobe.

[–]chesterriley 1 point2 points ago

Except for the cat Lenin looks like a Wall Street money type guy.

[–]edselford 2 points3 points ago

Most everyone dressed like that back then; poor people wore suits, just cheap, crappy ones that fell apart.

[–]deltagreen78 2 points3 points ago

lol i work with a guy who looks exactly like lenin..i think i will print this pic out and troll him with it tomorrow.

[–]Pot_O_Coffee 1 point2 points ago

Pussy Riot goes way back

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