Russia Became a Communist Hellhole Because of This Man

The Daily Signal ^ | November 6, 2019 | Richard Lim

[Fiji Hill]

I believe it was Ben Stein who said the only Marxist-Leninists you’ll find in America are BMW-driving graduate students

[Texas resident]

human lives are expendable in the pursuit of the workers’ paradise. Current belief system of the dimrat party.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Wonder what the response would be if an angry vet were to bow that abomination to hell with some C-4?

[aquila48]

Aw, come on now.

He was just an austere political scholar.

[dp0622]

Wow. A lot there I didn’t know.

Knew NONE of the sculptures.

Thanks

[McGruff]

No statue for Greta?

[NorseViking]

Lenin and Co were part of this crowd.

[Sans-Culotte]

Lenin’s reputation is, in my opinion and UNJUSTLY, significantly enhanced by the monster who succeeded him, Joseph Stalin.

I agree. You still hear people claim that communism would have worked if Lenin hadn't died. I think Lenin died before people could see how big an asshole he was.

[dfwgator]

Only it wasn’t called the “Communist Party” at the time, it was the rather innocuous, “Russian Social Democratic Labour Party”.

[dfwgator]

The German movie “Goodbye, Lenin” is worth watching. It revolves around the fall of Communism in East Germany.

One of my all-time favorite movies.

[dfwgator]

One of the greatest films ever.

That and, "The Lives of Others"

[dfwgator]

My favorite Lenin Statue...

[dfwgator]

I agree. You still hear people claim that communism would have worked if Lenin hadn't died.

Or if Trotsky replaced him, instead of Stalin.

[shotgun]

You forgot their Birkenstocks

[NorseViking]

Lenin was that you’d call a trust-fund kid nowadays. Spent hald of his life ‘studying’ abroad but factually at pubs with alikes exercising in demagoguery and Marxist scholasticism over a mug of beer. He hated his own country and regular folks and while rather charismatic lacked as a leader. That is why Stalin took over. Stalin was a regular gangster who met commies in prison and immediately befriended them out of lust for power, realizing their destabilizing potential. After commies took over he organized a Mafia-like structure within the state and wiped out Lenin and Co.