Any Prospect of a Classical America?

IN THE RUINOUS YEAR of 1918, a champion of historic preservation said this, and was heeded: “Do not touch a single stone. Preserve monuments, old things, documents. All this is history. It is our pride.”

Who said that—the president of the Daughters of the American Revolution? Not so. I quote from the writings of Lenin, who then addressed the Moscow Soviet. But today the Communists, degenerate from their sires, are preparing to pull down most of what remains of Moscow’s old architectural splendor— including the Lenin Museum.

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IN THE RUINOUS YEAR of 1918, a champion of historic preservation said this, and was heeded: “Do not touch a single stone. Preserve monuments, old things, documents. All this is history. It is our pride.”

Who said that—the president of the Daughters of the American Revolution? Not so. I quote from the writings of Lenin, who then addressed the Moscow Soviet. But today the Communists, degenerate from their sires, are preparing to pull down most of what remains of Moscow’s old architectural splendor— including the Lenin Museum.