Yes, they do, Lenin was a world class POS that had no mitigating characteristics at all, BUT we must let the Russians do it themselves by themselves. They don't have a lot of positive image leadership from 1917 to the early 1990's, to ease the perceptions of Russia.
And don't forget that Lenin was manufactured by Marx and Engels in Germany, France and England before he was shipped off to Russia.
And don't forget that Trotsky was the true organizer, the man who put together the nuts and bolts of the international communist "revolution."