列宁雕像

就我的发现而言，除了列宁雕像这样细微的差别之外，俄罗斯的葡萄酒生产与其它任何地方的葡萄酒产业别无二致，耳熟能详的所见所闻几乎令我失望了。

What I discovered is that , give or take a statue of Lenin , Russian wine production is remarkably like wine production everywhere else , and what I saw was almost disappointingly familiar .

2014年，当列宁的雕像在乌克兰各地被推倒时，当2003年伊拉克Firdos广场上萨达姆·侯赛因的雕像被推倒时，许多年长的西方保守派人士欢欣鼓舞，而一些年轻的进步人士不太确定是否应该庆祝。

When statues of Lenin were pulled down across Ukraine in 2014 , and when the Firdos Square statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled down in Iraq in 2003 , many older western conservatives rejoiced ; some younger progressives were less sure about celebrating .

听起来很符合逻辑，但是不管怎么说，“斧头与镰刀”的标志以及四处安放的列宁半身像以及雕像总是给人很奇怪的感觉。

It sounded like a logical argument , but none-the-less it is strange to see the'hammer and sickle'and the busts and statues of Lenin everywhere .