Soviet Russia

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, dad of the planet rabble, turns 140 today. To celebrate, historians at his museum in Ulyanovsk Lenin’s prenuptial name was Ulyanov and the city where he was born was renamed accordingly on his passing in 1924 have shown that Lenin was related, Obama-Cheney-style, to the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. With a bit of help from a German retiree ( confidence electrifying, isn’t it? ), the historians of the Lenin museum managed to trace the

Ulyanov line back to the 17th century, when the Bereneses the forebears to the Ulyanovs arrived in Russia and one of them married a proto-Tchaikovsky. Bang. The historians also found German, Swedish, and Jewish sap in the Ulyanov family history, which is funny. But what actually gets me is that the gay, gay, gay Tchaikovsky is related to a person whose regime criminalized homosexuality.