Posted on 04/22/2014 8:01:50 AM PDT by No One Special
Supporters of Vladimir Lenin flocked to Red Square on Tuesday to celebrate the 144th anniversary of the revolutionary's birthday.
Support for the legacy of Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin is on the rise, a poll published on the eve of the 144th anniversary of his birth showed.
Asked what they thought about Lenin's contribution to Russian history, 38 percent of Russians said his influence had been "mostly positive."
The survey, conducted by the independent Levada Center pollster and published Monday, showed a steady increase in Lenin's popularity since 2006, when only 29 percent rated his influence as mostly positive.
The figure had risen to 36 percent by 2012.
In a corresponding trend, the number of people who see Lenin's contribution as "mostly negative" has dropped from 27 percent in 2006 to 21 percent this year.
Those who saw his legacy as "completely negative" also declined, from 9 percent in 2006 to 5 percent this year.
The number of Russians who rated Lenin's legacy as "entirely positive" has remained steady for the past two years, at 13 percent.
Lenin played a key role in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and is widely considered to be the architect of the Soviet Union.
The poll was conducted among 1,603 Russians from March 21-24 in 45 Russian regions. The margin of error was 3.4 percent.
Notice, not a single one of the commies is drinking water.
Vodka. That’s all they drink.
Geesh. Do they not have dry cleaners in Russia, yet? Every jacket in those pics looks to have been dug out from under a bed.
Russians are about the stupidest people on earth. They’ll get what they deserve again at some point in the future. Lenin despised them (unless they were “proletariate”) and they loved all the brutality which was intiated by that monster. Even Stalin was too moderate for Lenin’s taste.
Lenin at 144 years old, he must have been 99 when he
joined the Beatles.
Looks good for his age though, almost life like...
The Red Album was my favorite: `There’s an Octopus In My Garden, and His Name is Trotsky’
I notice the “young Pioneers” don’t seem to smile
much...
They’ve never actually lived under his rule. If you went on strike you were shot. If you owned land you were sent to Siberia. If you voiced dissent you were denied a ration card and starved. If a town protested their food being stolen the military was sent in to mop up.
One trip to Costco and they’ll be urinating on Lenin’s tomb.
Lenin Day...Earth Day....funny how they’re the same day.
Lenin: Don’t bother with a state funeral...
Reply: Oh we’re not, we’re having you stuffed
and mounted in the Kremlin.
I just posted the 2013 result of a like poll.
Just like those who worship Stalin who never had to live under his rule.
Bet you that you’ll see way more than that commemorating Tsar Nicholas than Lenin.
Paid demonstrators who have no clue what it is to live under his rule or either being psid enough to ignore it.
The Amerikan MSM has been cheerleading for Lenin over the
past many decades as have those in the academic world. Do
these misguided souls ever see themselves working with their
hands in the fields or factories? Of course not. Their self-vision
is that they will be the paid philosophers or in charge of distrib-
uting goods and services. And they will be the wealthy and
powerful in their utopia.
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