“The bomb exploded the junk in Vladimir's trunk. Y'know, they always said that Communists would get it in the end.”

—  Rachel Maddow

The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC (1 April 2009)
Commenting on a bomb that blew a hole in an 80-year-old St. Petersburg statue of Vladimir Lenin.

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