Vladimir Lenin

Date of Birth:

22-Apr-1870

Nationality:

Russian Federation

Profession:

Leader

Vladimir Lenin was the founding father of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and architect and therefore the first head of the Soviet state. Considered the most influential and most controversial political figure of the 20th century, Vladimir Lenin founded the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 and later identified it as the first leader of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) which was newly formed. He was the source of "Leninism," the doctrine was compiled and combined with the works of Marx that Lenin's followers did to form Marxism-Leninism, which became a globalist view of Communism. He has been seen as the greatest leader and greatest reformist since Marx. He died on 21 January 1924.

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Vladimir Lenin

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“I had already drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, on the 'Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.' But... It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.”

“The departments are shit; decrees are shit.”

“It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.”

“I particularly approve of and welcome the arrest of millionaire saboteurs in the first and second-class railway carriage.”

“Revolution consists not in the new class commanding, governing with the aid of the old state machine, but in this class smashing this machine and commanding, governing with the aid of a new machine.”

“I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart’s content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.”

“I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart’s content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.”

“The roots of modern religion are deeply embedded in the social oppression of the working masses.”

“American ethics”, which the European professors and well-meaning bourgeois so hypocritically deplore, have, in the age of finance capital, become the ethics of literally every large city in any country.”