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“Only Bible more popular than Lenin’s writings” – Russia’s Communist leader
Published: 22 April, 2010, 11:14
Edited: 03 July, 2010, 10:40
TAGS: Anniversary, Interview, Lenin, History
To communist supporters in modern Russia, Vladimir Lenin was probably the greatest man of all time. Today, the party leader is Gennady Zyuganov, heading what is the second biggest party in Russia's parliament.
As he tells RT, his belief is that the Soviet founder's place in history lies somewhere between Buddha, Jesus and the Prophet Mohammed.
“Lenin is one of the greatest politicians and thinkers of our time,” Zyuganov said. “It is impossible to turn him into a brand, simply because every prominent library in the world has the full collection of his works. The only book that is more popular is the Bible. He is the founder of our Soviet state. There is no other legitimate foundation for today's Russian state. Lenin is studied in all leading universities, and he is still the most read politician in the world. Also all great people have the highest esteem for him. For example, Romain Rolland, the great writer and Nobel Prize winner. Bernard Shaw said: ‘If the future is the future as Lenin foresaw it, then we may all smile and look forward to the future without fear.’”
The leader of communist party also spoke about attempts to make money on the “trade name” of Lenin:
“There are people who try to make money on him as a brand. There are people who try to turn everything into a brand and are ready to sell sacred things. In my opinion, they are not humans. These are selfish people, concerned only about their personal gain. Tomorrow they will devour the whole planet and sell their family members.”
Gennady Zyuganov has also denied brutality on Lenin’s part.
“I will quote you Berdayev, who was not a communist. He’s a well-known philosopher, who belonged to the Constitutional Democratic Party. I quote almost literally what he wrote: ‘In the year 1918, when the country was in danger of complete anarchy and chaos, Lenin appealed to labor and discipline, studying and positive construction.’ And now literally: ‘Lenin stopped the chaotic decay of Russia.’ If the country had disintegrated, there would have been a sea of blood, and you would not be here asking me questions. That’s also Lenin’s achievement.”
“People are not afraid of him,” he emphasized. “But explosions happen every day in our country. This is mostly because Lenin's ideology was destroyed. People were at the heart of his ideology, as well as labor, friendship between different nations, Soviet power. People who organize these explosions are bandits, scum, those who have been poisoned by the anti-Soviet propaganda. I think this is an alarming sign, but we need to give credit to St. Petersburg/Leningrad – they restored the monument, and Lenin continues to look into the future with confidence from the same spot.”
In his interview with RT, Zyuganov also touched upon the problematic issue of Lenin’s’ tomb on Red Square.
“We have many burial sites like that,” he assured. “Go to the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, for example. You can go there and see the remains of our legendary hero Ilya Muromets. Twice a year, the monks change his clothes. You can go to the Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery. I have been there myself. Pushkin's relatives are buried there, as well as Kutuzov's relatives and many others. This is a traditional form of burial that has existed in Russia for a long time. And Lenin's podium is 2 meters lower than the ground level, in accordance with the Orthodox doctrine. So we need to respect the decision made by our fathers and grandfathers.”
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I prefer to live in the real world, not the ideological world of people like Kihnu. What Lenin did is STILL shaking our windows and rattling our halls! Its DONE, he did it. He is long gone, but what he did in the real world, in real space and time, had monumental consequences, whatever you think of them. Lenin has to be compared to the other giants of history, like Constantine, Mohammed, Elizabeth I of England, Washington and Jefferson -- and it shows a minimal intellectual capacity to rate Lenin on a level of an Idi Amin, even if you are ideologically opposed to Lenin! How obviously absurd! If not for Lenin, there would have been no Soviet Union; if not for the Soviet Union, there would have been no People's Republic of China, etc. If you want to claim these were all terrible things, that is another argument; but to claim that Lenin was irrelevant is disgustingly stupid.
I have read many works by Lenin and I consider myself his humble student. Nobody in history has accomplished the feats that Lenin has. He is an intellectual giant and an unerring moral compass. He is an unequaled leader, an unsurpassed intellect and a real savior of humanity. A man of peace and immense capacity for love for the exploited of the world. He saved not only Russia, but the whole world. While prophets have become irrelevant except for their common message of love, Lenin stands on the highest pedestal of humanity as an ordinary man. His ideas and work will never be obsolete and will shine forever for people who care for other people and want to understand the workings of the world. Lenin's detractors have not read a single word written by him. Those who have read him, will always worship him as the purest and the highest embodiment of what humans can achieve. Lenin is with his devotees today. He will return triumphantly tomorrow when his iron logic and unmatched analyses of human interactions become once again the ruling ideas of mankind. Lenin comes once in centuries and will be immortal as long as there is a single human inhabiting the world. If you have not read Lenin, you have wasted a large part of your life. He has been the single hero of my life is is immortalized in my soul, as in in the soul hundreds of millions who fight for equality, justice and freedom.
now in 2012,the USA "land of opportuny" its economy is crubleling like rubble.it feels like america is going to parish and socalism is going to take it and create a better economy and formally a better education.If i asked a middle scoller or grade level schollers there observantly NEED TO KNOW about the differences between capitalism or socialism or yet they don't care cause IT MAY BE boring to them