Posted on 01/21/2024 10:14:49 AM PST by Borges
Sunday’s centenary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century, will largely go uncelebrated in his home country of Russia this weekend, where the revolutionary leader stands accused of laying a “timebomb” underneath Russia and Ukraine that has exploded in the past decade.
There will be no parades or stirring speeches in Red Square. The obvious reason is that one of Lenin’s most strident critics is Vladimir Putin, who appears far more enamoured with the empire that Lenin’s revolutionaries overthrew.
Often portrayed in official Soviet culture as a grandfatherly, nurturing figure who ushered in the revolution of 1917, Lenin’s legacy is being repainted in darker hues, despite some pleas for the issue to be put to rest, both rhetorically and corporeally.
“In my opinion, the 100th anniversary of Lenin’s death creates an opportunity to try to move away from the endless passionate and meaningless bickering around the dilemma: is he an angel from heaven or a monstrous antichrist, the embodiment of absolute world evil?” said Vladimir Lukin, a Russian senator who formerly served as a human rights commissioner. But, he added: “Whether it will be used is another question.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
We all know how The Guardian’s staff feel about the question.
The offices of The Guardian likely have a shrine to Lenin.
Oh STFU. May Lenin rot in Hell. The only good Communists are dead Communists.
Meanwhile they still like Stalin....
“angel or anti-christ”
How bout “mass murderer”
Wasn’t too much spiritual about the cretin.
I remember when the democrats in the US, especially old killer Ted Kennedy, loved the Soviets ... It is very difficult to reconcile the babbling godfather Joey, plot the regime change against Putin... The worm has turned ... blood red.
Um.... Anti-Christ. A murderous bastard.
Are those Ruuskis still protecting his body?
—”The offices of The Guardian likely have a shrine to Lenin.”
Only one?
How about sinful human.
Lenin lives
Gog usa
Magog nato
Rev 13
Ps
Hitler too
—”Oh STFU. May Lenin rot in Hell. The only good Communists are dead Communists.”
That said, Free Republic has several Putin acolytes...
How does that happen?
IBTZ
“The only good Communists are dead Communists.”
That said, Free Republic has several Putin acolytes...
How does that happen? “
I dunno... maybe read the article.
“...one of Lenin’s most strident critics is Vladimir Putin, ...”
Given that Lenin distributed pamphlets instructing rioters to throw acid into the faces of police officers, I think the jury's in on that question.
Touché!
Not many know that Lenin was behind the Red Terror after an assassination attempt on him, Trotsky and several others, that ran from August 1918 to February 1922.
The number of people executed is estimated between 50,000 and 200,000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror
https://time.com/5386789/red-terror-soviet-history/
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2020/09/how-the-red-terror-set-a-macabre-course-for-the-soviet-union
An angel, of course. Stalin was the bad guy. /s
So, using the Guardian’s logic, Fannie Kaplan and Molotov were pining for the Czar? Despite being huge communists in their own right? Just because they like Putin also made criticisms of Lenin (heck, tried to assassinate Lenin in the case of Fanny)?
And last I checked, the event that Putin called the greatest geopolitical disaster in history was the fall of the USSR, NOT the fall of Czarist Russia (ie, 1917), and he also still had Lenin statues installed in Ukraine, not to mention despite having plenty of opportunities to use his clout to shut down the Lenin Mausoleum and bury him in an unmarked grave at best, he still keeps it open. That sounds like he’s more in favor of Communism than for Imperial Russia.
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