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RT Politics Interview

“Only Bible more popular than Lenin’s writings” – Russia’s Communist leader

Published: 22 April, 2010, 11:14
Edited: 03 July, 2010, 10:40


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.

 
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Ibarruri April 22, 2010, 22:15 quote
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I agree with this great comrade! Were it not for the fact that the bible is much older than Lenin's Works and has been propagated as an ideological instrument serving the interest of the ruling elite in the quest to retain dominance, Lenin' s works would certainly have attained far more popularity than the bible . That this unequal playing ground has prevailed till now is indicative of the sharp and bitter contest between the enlightenment of Lenin's Works and the obscurantism of the Bible. The Future of man is brighter with Leninism than with the bible, but it takes some education and a humane psychology to grasp this truth.

Kihnu April 23, 2010, 20:43 quote
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Lenin's literary works are no more relevant to humanity than those of Idi Amin Dada. Though, I have to give credit to Lenin and his commies that they were able to dupe the peasants of Tsarist Russia.

Notebooks and History April 25, 2010, 16:07 quote
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A great interview, one of the best, more meaningful RT interviews. In the face of today Russia, where the wealth of the nation is the hands of oligarchs, where Russian children are adopted in the tens of thousands by foreigners, where the best and brightest Russians are leaving the country, this is an important interview to remind Russians that Lenin may be dead but Russia’s cannot return to the days of Tsars- it must move toward the path of a new just society. Today’s Russia is far away from being a jus and equitable society.

armen08 May 13, 2010, 07:49 quote
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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.

Pauline July 03, 2010, 09:01 quote
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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.

Jamie Abrams (unregistered) May 26, 2012, 20:43 quote
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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

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