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.
This is why they should have chucked his corpse out in 1991 and turned the mausoleum into a public restroom.
“And they will be the wealthy and powerful in their utopia.”
Until they aren’t.
They haven’t figured out what the term “usefull idiots” means. And what happens to them.
He's a piker compared to Stalin and Mao and Adolf and...
And of course we know they feel completely free to speak out, what with journalists being murdered and all.
Photos from D.C.?.
There would have been no Stalin, Mao or Adolf without Lenin because he put down their “intellectual foundation”.
“We will turn our hearts into steel, which we will temper in the fire of suffering and the blood of fighters for freedom. We will make our hearts cruel, hard, and immovable, so that no mercy will enter them, and so that they will not quiver at the sight of a sea of enemy blood. We will let loose the floodgates of that sea. Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our enemies in scores of hundreds. Let them be thousands; let them drown themselves in their own blood. For the blood of Lenin and Uritsky, Zinovief and Volodarski, let there be floods of the blood of the bourgeois - more blood, as much as possible.”
-Felix Dzerzhinsky
Likewise, Putin is trying to rebuild the Russian Empire, which most remember as its USSR incarnation, using Soviet-Era imagery and propaganda.
Yeah, it’s not like the pooty toot thought this up himself.
It's a foreign substance used to replace precious bodily fluids. That's what makes em' commies. They are trying to do the same thing in America with fluoride.
It was a good movie (Dr.Strangelove).
I guess "fall" is incorrect. The moving it to the United States of soviet communism.
Nah, they'd be scooping everything up and still deriding the evils of capitalism.
I think D.C. misses the C.C.C.P. more it’s do it’s best to bring it back.
It was a GREAT movie!
They certainly are. None seem to have any idea of the monstrous personality of this man, who despised ALL humanity (including the proletriate) and was concerned only with "the will to power." Paul Johnson, in his "Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties," outlines and analyzes exactly what Lenin was. The Russians seem to have never learned about him and one suspects, they never will.
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