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Coffee with your slice of Lenin?

24Jul2009

I profess a certain fascination and love for the Cake Wrecks blog. Today we are gifted with a Bolshevik revolution of an entirely different sort:

“I mean, it looks just like Lenin’s perfectly preserved corpse, so I know you’re salivating already. Why, just look how excited the kiddies are!”

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  1. Michael
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    Communist Communion?

  2. ed
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    This is so cool. though i wonder what Putin wld think? haha..

  3. kb
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    kb

    this cake corpse looks more real than the actual pickled pioneer of the proletarian paradise.save for the flowers. dead lenin has none like this.

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    [...] out his new site for Lenin cakes, development experiments, and a belly proof golden [...]

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    [...] even begin to describe Chris Blattman’s blog. Here he brings us people tucking into a yummy full size cake replica of Lenin’s corpse…. , and here he links to the UK street artist Banksy’s work in [...]

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    Mummy of Lenin –to the museum of revolution!

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