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Position:Home>History> What do you know about Vladimir Lenin? What do you think about him?Question: What do you know about Vladimir Lenin!? What do you think about him!? It's said what "Russia is a country with unpredictable past", and our attitude to our former leaders is changing frequently, Lenin has been both adored and hated!. So I'd like to know what foreigners know and think about this figure in world history!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Winston Churchill once said: "Russia's greatest misfortune was Lenin's birth; its second greatest misfortune was his death!." Lenin, born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, had one of the smallest brains recorded in any adult human male, but nevertheless exhibited considerable intelligence and dedication!. It is unfortunate for the world and especially for Russia that he was dedicated to bringing in a system that would ultimately destroy millions of families and hundreds of millions of lives and pollute the planet not only with toxic chemicals but also with toxic propaganda and attitudes!. There are few corners of the world where Communism has not shed its deadly legacy, bringing strife and suffering far beyond even what was the norm in misgoverned and war-torn areas!. The second part of Churchill's comment, that Russia's second greatest misfortune was Lenin's death, is because Lenin, having introduced Communism, had the clarity of vision to see that it did not work, and in his New Economic Policy he was trying to reverse the damage done by the Bolshevik method of rule!. also at his death his final testament stated that Iosif Vissarianovich Djugashvili (Stalin) was not to be trusted with any office - he had seen the type of person Stalin was!. (Zinoviev made a speech in favour of Stalin and managed to persuade the Bolsheviks not to follow Lenin's ruling in this matter - and Stalin rewarded Zinoviev with disgrace and death in the 1930s!.) It would have been far better for the world if Lenin had never been born!. It was he who turned Communism from an ineffectual talking-shop into a deadly weapon of power-seizure and mass-murder (one thing Lenin should have done if he had had any regard for the Russian people would be to have had 'Iron Feliks' Dzherzhinsky dissolved in one of his own acid baths, or at least shot)!. He is certainly one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century, but the consequences were not good!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |