Nothing spits in the dead eye of a counter-capitalist political system like standing one of its heroes inside a Las Vegas casino and cutting off his head.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), who was one of the leaders of the Soviet revolution, stands outside “Red Square,” a pricey vodka bar along Mandalay Bay Hotel-Casino’s indoor restaurant row. An iron giant of heroic proportions, the decapitated Communist’s shoulders and shoe tops are stained white with what appears to be simulated bird poop.