“Killer” Painted on Lenin Statue in Ural Mountains City

Residents of the city of Miass on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains were surprised to find a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the city park doused with red blood on the morning of September 18.

“The figure of the leader of the world proletariat seems to have come out of a horror film” writes newsmiass.ru.

The mouth and clothes on the statue were smeared with red paint, and on the pedestal of the monument to Lenin, a man responsible for killing millions of his own people, the word “Killer” was written. Presumably, red paint was used to symbolize blood.

Police soon arrived on the scene and began an investigation, and city employees have cleaned the statue.

The same statue was a target in March 2015, when a young man put tires around the head of the statue and set them on fire, causing the statue to crack in several places.

In May 2018, a statue of Lenin was replaced with a statue of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Odessa Province in Ukraine.

It is a shame that people don't understand the history of what Lenin did. Lenin killed people to instill terror, something that Stalin took note of an mastered far better later in Soviet history.

Remember that a Kulak could be a peasant farmer who had an extra cow, a good harvest, sold surplus milk or produce in a village market. Only subsistence farmers with no surplus were immune from being called a Kulak. The problem was that subsistence farmers could not feed the industrial cities and therefore Lenin needed to steal grain and food from someone, so the Kulaks were sacrificed.

“.....11 August 1918 cable

One telegram (dated 11 August 1918) instructed the Communists operating in the Penza area to publicly hang at least one hundred kulaks, to publicize their names, to confiscate their grain, and to designate a number of hostages. Whether anyone was actually hanged according to this order remains unknown. Lenin's so-called “Hanging Order” was discussed during a controversy about the BBC documentary Lenin's Secret Files (1997) based upon Robert Service's findings in Soviet archives.

This is an accurate translation of the Russian original:[according to whom?]

“Comrades! The insurrection of five kulak districts should be pitilessly suppressed. The interests of the whole revolution require this because ‘the last decisive battle’ with the kulaks is now under way everywhere. An example must be demonstrated.

Hang (absolutely hang, in full view of the people) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, filthy rich men, bloodsuckers.
Publish their names.
Seize all grain from them.
Designate hostages - in accordance with yesterday's telegram.

Do it in such a fashion, that for hundreds of verst around the people see, tremble, know, shout: “strangling (is done) and will continue for the bloodsucking kulaks”.

Telegraph the receipt and the implementation. Yours, Lenin.

P.S. Use your toughest people for this.”

19 August 1918 cable

On 19 August 1918, Lenin sent another telegram to Penza expressing exasperation and modifying his previous instructions:[6]

I am extremely indignant that there has been absolutely nothing definite from you as to what serious measures have at last been carried out by you for ruthless suppression of the kulaks of five volosts and confiscation of their grain. Your inactivity is criminal. All efforts should be concentrated on a single volost which should be swept clean of all grain surpluses. Telegraph fulfilment.

Lenin Chairman, Council of People's Commissars
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin%27s_Hanging_Order

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