My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice... but because of his omnipresent images.
My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
I started like many young Russian people in the beginning of perestroika when it seemed that everything was possible.
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.
Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.