I just had a wonderful conversation with my even more wonderful boyfriend that I decided I had to share.
Katharina says:
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/07/im-guessing-they-didnt-have-matching.html Scroll down.

Lenin cake!!

Life-sized Lenin cake!
Jamie says:
OH JESUS f***!

Katharina says:
Jamie says:
It's...
Katharina says:
I thought it was amusing.

Jamie says:
I thought the rat was bad enough
Katharina says:
Jamie says:
It's also made even more weird by the fact that somewhere in Red Square, Lenin is actually lying there just as he is in the cake.
And that someone's eating the cake

Katharina says:
Yes.

Except that Lenin is decomposed and not edible.

Jamie says:
It almost makes you think, "What if they got them mixed up?"

Katharina says:
Jamie says:
He's not decomposed!!!!

That's the point!
Katharina says:
No?

Jamie says:
If they keep cleaning his fingernails every six months or so then he will stay mummified FOREVER!!!
Apparently.
Katharina says:
Wait, what? XP
Jamie says:
I saw a documentary on it.
Katharina says:
Why?
Are they going to clone him?

Jamie says:
They have to do maintenance work on him every few months

Katharina says:
Jamie says:
But he's Lenin!

Katharina says:
That is so ridiculous.
Jamie says:
Katharina says:
Yes, and he died almost 100 years ago.
Jamie says:
I know

I do like the idea of waking him up again, though

Katharina says:
You wouldn't be "waking him up again"

If you cloned him, it would still be a different person with a different upbringing and different views on society.
Jamie says:
Well, not if you cloned him.
Katharina says:
Personalities aren't chemical.
Jamie says:
True.
Yes, I know.
BUT
Katharina says:
Think of his internal organs.

Jamie says:
Hmm, true

Maybe they could be replaced?
Katharina says:
His brain?

Jamie says:
CYBORG LENIN!!!
Sorry

Katharina says:

Jamie says:
Yeah, his brain's probably not doing very well.
Katharina says:
Indeed

Jamie says:
I do like the idea of an army of Lenin-clones, though

Katharina says:
You can grow other organs.

but probably not the brain.

Jamie says:
True!

Yes

Sad

Katharina says:
He'd also have to relearn everything and be brought up again if you did that.

So cloning him would make more sense.

Jamie says:
True

Katharina says:
In which case he'd still have a completely different worldview and upbringing and grow up in a completely different society.
Jamie says:
He can rule Russia
Katharina says:
So can I!

Jamie says:
Yes

Katharina says:
Whose side are you on?
Jamie says:
You can marry clone Lenin!

And I can be your consort
This is very messed up

Katharina says:
My boyfriend wants me to marry someone else.

This is so wrong.
You know, if you don't want me, there are easier ways to go about getting rid of me than cloning Lenin, turning him into a cyborg and getting me to marry him.
Jamie says:

Katharina says:
I hope you realise that.

Jamie says:
I refute that!

Katharina says:
Ok, what's your argument?

Jamie says:
Plus, I really want to see clone-cyborg Lenin
Katharina says:
Jamie says:
IT WOULD BE SO COOL!

Katharina says:
It would.
Jamie says:
It would be like all those really bad "Soviet Russia is land of cyborgs and space-cigars and mind-controool."
films.
Katharina says:
but presumably/hopefully, you don't want your girlfriend to be his?
Jamie says:

No, not really
Katharina says:
Please value me?

Jamie says:
I'm just allowing you to marry clone Lenin for power

Katharina says:
No selling me off to cyborg-Bolsheviks?

Jamie says:
I wouldn't sell you off!

I'd just allow you to insinuate yourself into them if you wanted to

Katharina says:
Jamie says:
After all, you do want to rule a nation

Katharina says:
Yes.

I love Russia.
Jamie says:
As do I

Katharina says:
Their language needs to be reformed though.

Jamie says:
I would love it more if it had cyborgs, though
