("More alive than all the living" - in the Soviet Union, this slogan was historically applied to Vladimir Lenin)
Below is a link to re-posted essay by a popular Russian blogger arguing a creation of a global collective myth about a Libyan leader, be the latter dead of still alive. Internationally, the new myth is equalling the legend of Che Guevara and his revolutionary Odyssea .
In spite of blackening Western propaganda, Gaddafi has become a symbol of "genuineness", so unexpectedly rare in the era of mass consumerism. According to the old English proverb, he finally happened to "practice what he preached". This has made Gaddafi a folk hero regardless to his alleged death or assumed living.
Gaddafi has instantly become a cherished and long sought hero of several Russian generations who are currently forced to live under a huge liberal pressure denigrating country's brilliant past history. The loss of Russian national idea explains why Russians start looking for heroes either in their own past ( by worshipping Stalin who passed away long ago) or by creating heroes in present time while leaving grattifi "Gaddafi is alive" on the walls of their villages and cities. (
Read further in Russian...)