Like Stalin and Mao, and despite his more positive reputation among Leftists, Lenin also wished to exterminate the peasant class, even orchestrating famines to do so, in order to force his will on Socialism. This also proves that Communism, despite the PR, never cared at all for the poor.<ref name="Russia's Original Cold-Blooded Communist Revolutionary">http://canadafreepress.com/article/vladimir-lenin-russias-original-cold-blooded-communist-revolutionary</ref>
The [[Russian Civil War]] was fought between the [[Bolshevik]] lead -led [[Red Army]] and the [[White Army]], which had many factions. As both sides committed gross atrocities, the White Army had only a small one wanted to restore the [[monarchy]].
Aside from this, he and the USSR are particularly notorious as being the first state leader and country, respectively to issue unlimited and unrestrained abortions,<ref>https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/11/17/november-1920-2020-a-century-of-abortion-in-russia/</ref> which shocked even the likes of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, and disturbed even the likes of Joseph Stalin enough to have him temporarily make abortion illegal largely because it would have ensured Russia as a country no longer existed otherwise. This was in keeping with Marx and Engels' demand for, among other things, the abolishment of the family unit.