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|birth_date=Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov <br/> April 22, 1870

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'''Vladimir Lenin''' (born either Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov <ref>"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (Russian: Владимир Ильич Улянов, Ленин) was the pseudonym he used after 1900 to disguise his identity.</ref> known as Volodya as a child<refname="The Truth about Vladimir Lenin">http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2017/6/11/the-truth-about-vladimir-lenin-the-father-of-post-truth-politics#.YL00l4WSmUk=</ref>) ([[April]] 22, [[1870]] – [[January]] 21, [[1924]]) was the leader of Russian [[Communism]] and an important theoretician of [[Marxism]]. Coming to power in 1917, he became dictator of the [[Soviet Union]]. All over the Soviet Union and even to some extent some Western countries, there were statues and paintings honoring his memory; some were removed when Communism collapsed in 1991. Lenin repudiated and tried to stop his successor [[Joseph Stalin]], who was an even worse tyrant, although his reasons were implied to be more due to Stalin's lower-class upbringing than any moral objections to Stalin, due to his dismissing Stalin as a "Georgian peasant" when someone suggested him to take Lenin's place. In addition, [[Vyacheslav Molotov]], one of the few members of Stalin's inner circle to serve both Lenin and Stalin, when asked about who was harsher, indicated that Lenin was more severe than Stalin.<ref>https://fee.org/articles/the-unknown-lenin-from-the-secret-archive-edited-by-richard-pipes/</ref><ref>https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/10/leninthink</ref>

Lenin was born on April 22, 1870 (first [[Earth Day]] was established on what would have been his 100th birthday) to a middle-class Russian family; his parents Ilya Ulyanov and Maria Ulyanova were school teachers. According to a note by his older sister Anna that was uncovered in 2000, he had a big head and weak legs, which resulted in him toppling over onto the carpet and even the floorboards of their house, and constantly banging his head in tantrums as a result, with the wooden structure of their house acting as an echo chamber and amplifying his tantrums. In addition, even as a child, he was unruly and disturbed, including deliberately trampling over his younger brother Dmitry's theater poster collection as well as terrorizing his younger sister Maria, and on his third birthday, when given a small, papier-mache horse as a gift, he secluded himself to his room and spent his time trying to twist off its legs, ultimately leaving the room satisfied after he had done so. His own parents also had no idea on how to control him, with his mother Maria even thinking he'll likely grow up mentally retarded. <ref name="The Truth about Vladimir Lenin" /> In 1889, he became a [[Marxist]] after his older brother Aleksandr was hanged for the attempted murder of Tsar Aleksandr III. Lenin obtained a law degree shortly afterward, and hints at his more callous nature, including his intention of using starvations to foster his Marxist agenda, started showing itself by 1891 during the Volga famine. Acting as a high ranking member of the socialist intelligentsia at that time, he was the one voice who opposed supplying any relief aid to them, even going as far as to ruin the Samara charity committee in the process, citing that starving the peasantry would bring death to the old peasant economy and hasten their goal of Marxist revolution, or as he put it, "one shouldn’t improve [the peasants'] lives, but instead let them become bestial and unleash monstrous violence."<ref>https://canadafreepress.com/article/vladimir-lenin-russias-original-cold-blooded-communist-revolutionary</ref><ref>https://www.rferl.org/amp/lenin-at-150-even-without-covid-19-russia-was-set-to-snub-the-soviet-union-s-founder/30568383.html?fbclid=IwAR2s0upNQ-WaEeeXyJBcVF3mL1InW2ynJmOoqg7PkC7Y9OzPSL2X5bXaMDY</ref> By 1895, Lenin was a [[subversion (political)|subversive]] who was arrested and sent to a prison in [[Siberia]] as punishment. He was in exile 1900-1917, during which time he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. He collaborated with Georgy Plekhanov and others to set up the clandestine newspaper ''Iskra'' (The Spark), designed to "ignite" radical consciousness. In the pages of ''Iskra'', Lenin denounced any alliance with liberals or other elements of the bourgeoisie because they would keep power in the hands of the middle class. He emphasized social democracy—equality of condition, rather than political democracy, as the basis for individual freedom. His major theoretical publication was the pamphlet "What Is to Be Done?" (1902). In 1903 he organized and controlled the '''"Bolshevik"''' wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor party, fighting the opposition "Mensheviks." Lenin, like his populist predecessors in the Russian radical movement, stressed the need for a small elite vanguard to lead the revolution

In October 1917, Lenin masterminded a [[coup d'état]] which overthrew the [[Provisional Government]] which had replaced the [[Russian Empire]]. In what historian [[Simon Sebag Montefiore]] has described as a comedy of errors, the Winter Palace was shelled and the Provisional Cabinet was placed under arrest by a mixture of Red Guards and radical sailors from the Kronstadt Naval Base.  He ultimately wasn't content with merely having Russia be under Communist rule, as he sought to back the Communists in Germany in the hopes of subjecting the entirety of Western Europe at a bare minimum to Communism, proving he had no loyalty to the Imperial Germans despite their role in his gaining power. To this end, he planned to have two divisions of the Red Army invade Germany, which ultimately resulted in the [[Polish-Soviet War]].<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/08/communisms-first-defeat-john-radzilowski/</ref> 

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>On a similar note, he also actively encouraged the use of terror for the revolution, to such an extent that when the second Soviet congress passed a resolution to abolish the death penalty without his knowledge due to being absent that time, he flew into a rage and screamed "Nonsense, how can you make a revolution without firing squads? Do you expect to dispose of your enemies by disarming yourself? What other means of repression are there? Prisons? Who attaches significance to that during a civil war?" That said, however, he made sure to avoid publicly endorsing the terror, having others sign the death warrants in his stead, which resulted in the false myth that he was the good and gentle ruler of the Soviet Union who was isolated from the Red Terror.<ref>https://erenow.net/modern/a-peoples-tragedy-russian-revolution/44.php</ref> The [[Russian Civil War]] was fought between the [[Bolshevik]]-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]].

The [[Russian Civil War]] was fought between the [[Bolshevik]] lead [[Red Army]] Aside from this, he and the [[White Army]]USSR are particularly notorious as being the first state leader and country, which had many factionsrespectively to issue unlimited and unrestrained abortions,<ref>https://www. As both sides committed gross atrocitiescatholicworldreport.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 White Army had only a small one wanted likes of Joseph Stalin enough to restore 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 [[monarchy]]family unit.

Lenin, a workaholic who avoided vacations and downtime, died in 1924 following a series of progressively more serious strokes. However, recent studies indicate that his "strokes" were actually the terminal effects of syphillis that he got from interacting with a prostitute during his exile. <ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222209/Lenin-died-syphilis-NOT-stroke-claims-historian.html</ref> [[Joseph Stalin]] was his even more brutal successor.

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Lenin turned Russia into autonomous republics so not one ethnic group will have too much power; Communist communist theory denies the existence of race , but the adherents flip flop to favor one group over another. This explains why leftists support racial quotas, especially affirmative action. [[Rules for Radicals]] by [[Saul Alinsky]], whose disciples include Democrats like [[Hillary Clinton]] and [[Barack Obama]], borrowed his approach to identity politics, with concepts such as critical race theory, which teaches that white people are privileged, supporting groups such as Black Lives Matter which create racial and ethic divisons, and endorsing safe spaces on higher education campuses. The first Ukrainians were Carpathian Russians in [[Austria-Hungary]] who denounced [[Orthodox Christianity]] for [[Roman Catholicism]] in 1893, and then when the Ukrainian People's Republic gained independence after the first Russian Revolution in 1917, he retook the country the next year and expanded it's territory, making it an artificial state in the style of the [[EU]].<ref>https://russophile.org/is-ukraine-an-artificial-state-popular-youtuber-says-yes/</ref><ref>https://orientalreview.org/2017/08/21/ukraines-misunderstanding-lenin-helps-explain-americas-fight-re-invented-historical-statues/</ref><ref>https://russian-faith.com/persecution/struggle-russian-christian-faith-europe-carpatho-russians-n1122</ref><ref>https://www.sott.net/article/391652-The-history-of-Ukraine-as-an-artificial-state</ref> As a consequence, Ukraine became a second [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>https://orientalreview.org/2014/09/15/eight-reasons-why-ukraine-is-new-yugoslavia/</ref> In 1948, the CIA report NSC 20/1, section 4: “US objectives with respect to Russia” warned that separating Ukraine from Russia will not work.<ref>http://www.sakva.ru/Nick/NSC_20_1.html</ref> When splitting the Transcaucasian republics in 1922, he gave the [[Armenian]] territory of [[Nagorno-Karabakh]] to [[Azerbaijan]]. In addition, Lenin and his Bolshevik followers created Central Asian republics, some of which never existed before, like [[Kazakhstan]], gave them many Russian lands that did not belong to them, like Orenburg and other territories populated by Ural Cossacks and provided for building their infrastructure, hospitals, schools etc., by those in the Russian workforce, with Russians being qualified specialists.

After his death in 1924, Stalin portrayed Lenin as an infallible humanitarian; his writings were viewed as gospel. Museums were devoted to his life and work, cities were named for him, and huge statues and monuments honored his memory. Beginning in 1985, however, the Lenin cult began to crumble. Party chairman [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] was a faithful disciple of Lenin, but he now faced the reality that the economically bankrupt Communist state was rapidly decaying. As the Communist nation unraveled, so did the Lenin personality cult. Leningrad residents voted to restore the St. Petersburg name; the once-crowded museums attracted few visitors; and Lenin's philosophy and actions were found less than perfect. In 1991 as Communism fell, the statues and paintings went into cold storage. By 1995 plans were being made to bury Lenin's corpse, which was finally acknowledged to be putrefying just as the remains of any other mortal, as the cult itself fell into "the dustbin of history."<ref>Trevor J. Smith, "The Collapse of the Lenin Personality Cult in Soviet Russia, 1985-1995," ''Historian'' 1998 60(2): 325-343, in [[EBSCO]]</ref> His memory also faltered, ironically enough ending up being behind Stalin, largely because of more exposure to his unprincipled and horrific crimes.<ref>https://www.rferl.org/amp/lenin-at-150-even-without-covid-19-russia-was-set-to-snub-the-soviet-union-s-founder/30568383.html?fbclid=IwAR2s0upNQ-WaEeeXyJBcVF3mL1InW2ynJmOoqg7PkC7Y9OzPSL2X5bXaMDY</ref>