'jihad' on lenin monuments: what is kiev trying to conceal?

Directing crowds’ fury against this symbol is advantageous for Kiev, as this vandalism against the “occupant” releases a bit of pressure and deflects people’s anger away from Petro

Poroshenko’s team, even though the “enemy” is imaginary. In its ideological point, anti-Lenin “vandal parties” are reminiscent of the “two minutes hate” events from GEORGE ORWELL’s “1984”.

In the book, the “two minutes hate” was the amount of time people had to express their hatred towards the governing party’s enemies on the screen. FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL UNREST AND MIND

CONTROL Therefore it is no wonder that crowds make a show of any demolition. The violent dismembering of an enemy’s monument produces a feeling of victory over him, similar to that of a

voodoo doll. But there is an important fact: Lenin remains popular with retirees. An opinion poll by Research & Branding suggests that 69 percent of Kiev residents viewed the demolition

of a local Lenin monument in December 2013 as “negative” and 67 percent described it as an act of vandalism. As a result, those demolitions create an additional generational gap. On the one

hand, young nationalists are more and more united, yet on the other hand, the abyss between them and the senior generation is growing. It creates the foundation for more social unrest and

splits the society: and _a fragmented society is way more controllable than a solid one._ ​According to French sociologist GUSTAVE LE BON’s mass theory, a society is stable when its

so-called cultural core is stable. One of this core’s essential components is ideology. Communism has never been an ideal paradigm, but it managed to serve as an ideological pillar in the

USSR. Now, Kiev is doing its best to eradicate its traces, and the “genocide” of Soviet leaders’ monuments is facilitating this.