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    • Quotes from Lenin, from which the blood freezes. Dress rehearsal for the October Revolution

    24.09.2019

    Leninist phrases

    Lenin's phrases- statements used by Lenin in written or oral speech, as well as attributed to him. Given the significant role of their author in the history and culture of the USSR, many of them have become popular expressions. At the same time, a number of quotes in their well-known formulation do not belong to Lenin, but first appeared in literary works and cinema. These statements became widespread in the political and everyday languages ​​of the USSR and post-Soviet Russia.

    "We'll go the other way"

    And then
    said
    Ilyich seventeen-year-old -
    this word
    stronger than oaths
    a soldier with a raised hand:
    - Brother,
    we are here
    ready to change you
    we will win
    But we will go the other way

    According to the memoirs of Anna Ilyinichna's elder sister, Vladimir Ulyanov expressed a different phrase: “No, we will not go this way. This is not the way to go."

    "Any cook is capable of running the state"

    Attributed to V. I. Lenin (and sometimes L. D. Trotsky) quote "any cook is capable of running the state" does not belong to him.

    In the article “Will the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?” (originally published in October 1917 in No. 1 - 2 of the Enlightenment magazine) Lenin wrote:

    We are not utopians. We know that any unskilled worker and any cook are not capable of immediately entering into government. […] But we […] demand an immediate break with the prejudice that only the rich or officials taken from rich families can govern the state, carry out the everyday, daily work of government. We demand that public administration be taught by conscious workers and soldiers, and that it be started immediately, that is, that all working people, all the poor, should be immediately enlisted in this training.

    The phrase "Any cook is capable of governing the state", attributed to V. I. Lenin, is often used in criticizing socialism and Soviet power. The option "Any cook should rule the state" is also used. In fact, Lenin only meant that even a cook should learn to govern the state.

    “Of all the arts, cinema is the most important for us”

    Lenin’s famous phrase “You must firmly remember that cinema is the most important of all the arts for us” is based on Lunacharsky’s memoirs about a conversation with Lenin in February 1922, set out by him in a letter to Boltyansky dated January 29, 1925 (ref. No. 190) which was published:

    • in the book G. M. Boltyansky"Lenin and cinema". - M.: L., 1925. - S.19; published excerpts from the letter, this is the first known publication;
    • in the magazine "Soviet Cinema" No. 1-2 for 1933 - P.10; the letter is published in full;
    • in edition V. I. Lenin. Complete Works, ed. 5th. M .: Publishing house of political literature, 1970. - T.44. - S.579; published an extract from the letter with a link to the magazine "Soviet Cinema".

    Many mistakenly believe that the phrase sounded different, and such distortions fall into seemingly authoritative sources, for example "While the people are illiterate, of all the arts, the cinema and the circus are the most important for us."

    "Study, study and study again"

    Famous words of Lenin study, study and study” were written by him in the work “Reverse Direction of Russian Social Democracy”, written at the end and published in 1924:

    While an educated society is losing interest in honest, illegal literature, a passionate desire for knowledge and socialism is growing among the workers, real heroes stand out among the workers who - despite the ugly conditions of their lives, despite the stupefying hard labor in the factory - find in themselves so much character and willpower that study, study and study and develop out of themselves conscious Social Democrats, "working intelligentsia."

    A similar repetition was made in the article "Less is more":

    We must by all means set ourselves the task of renewing our state apparatus: First, learn, second, learn, and third, learn. and then to check that science among us does not remain a dead letter or a fashionable phrase (and this, there is nothing to hide, it happens especially often with us), that science really enters into flesh and blood, turns into an integral element of everyday life in a completely and real way.

    In the report at the IV Congress of the Comintern "Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution" the word was repeated twice:

    ... every moment free from combat activity, from war, we must use for study and, moreover, from the beginning. The whole party and all sections of Russia prove this by their thirst for knowledge. This desire for learning shows that the most important task for us now is: learn and learn.

    It is a common misconception that for the first time Lenin uttered this phrase at the III All-Russian Congress of the RKSM on October 2, 1920. In fact, in this speech, the words " learn communism”, but the word “learn” was not repeated by him three times.

    “In fact, this is not a brain, but shit” (about bourgeois intellectuals)

    Lenin's phrase about bourgeois intellectuals is well-known: "In fact, this is not a brain, but shit."

    She is found in his letter to A. M. Gorky, sent on September 15, 1919 to Petrograd, which the author begins with a message about the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) on September 11, 1919: “we decided to appoint Kamenev and Bukharin to the Central Committee to verify the arrest of bourgeois intellectuals near-Cadet type and for the release of whom it is possible. For it is clear to us that there were mistakes here too.” )

    And he explains:

    “It is wrong to confuse the ‘intellectual forces’ of the people with the ‘forces’ of bourgeois intellectuals. I will take Korolenko as a model: I recently read his pamphlet War, Fatherland and Mankind, written in August 1917. Korolenko is, after all, the best of the "near-Cadet" ones, almost a Menshevik. And what a vile, vile, vile defense of the imperialist war, covered up with sugary phrases! Pitiful tradesman, captivated by bourgeois prejudices! For such gentlemen, 10,000,000 killed in the imperialist war is a cause worthy of support (by deeds, with sugary phrases “against” the war), and the death of hundreds of thousands in a just civil war against the landowners and capitalists causes aahs, oohs, sighs, hysterics.

    No. It is not a sin for such “talents” to spend weeks in prison if this is to be done to prevent conspiracies (like Krasnaya Gorka) and the death of tens of thousands. And we have uncovered these conspiracies of the Cadets and "near-Cadets". And we know that professors close to the Cadets give help to the conspirators all the time. It is a fact.

    The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and strengthening in the struggle to overthrow the bourgeoisie and its accomplices, the intellectuals, lackeys of capital, who imagine themselves to be the brains of the nation. In fact, this is not a brain, but a g ...

    We pay higher than average salaries to the "intellectual forces" who want to bring science to the people (and not to serve capital). It is a fact. We protect them."

    "There is such a party!"

    "There is such a party!" - a catchphrase uttered by V. I. Lenin at the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets in response to the thesis of the Menshevik I. G. Tsereteli.

    "Political prostitute"

    Not a single document has been preserved where Lenin directly uses this term. But there is plenty of evidence that he used the word "prostitutes" in relation to his political opponents. In particular, a letter from Lenin to the Central Committee of the RSDLP dated September 7, 1905 has been preserved, where he wrote: “Is it really possible to conference with these prostitutes without protocols?”

    Better less is better

    The title of an article from 1923 on measures to be taken to strengthen and improve the Soviet state apparatus. Published in Pravda, No. 49, March 4, 1923.

    see also

    Notes

    Literature

    • Lenin V.I. Full composition of writings . - 5th ed. - M .: Publishing house of political literature, 1964-1981.
    • Chudinov A.P. Russia in a Metaphorical Mirror: A Cognitive Study of Political Metaphor (1991-2000). - monograph. - Yekaterinburg: Ural. state ped. un-t., 2001. - 238 p. - ISBN 5-7186-0277-8
      Chudinov A. P Russia in a Metaphorical Mirror: A Cognitive Study of Political Metaphor (1991-2000). - 2nd ed. - Yekaterinburg: Ural State Pedagogical University, 2003. - 238 p. - ISBN 5-7186-0277-8
    • Maximenkov, Leonid Cult. Notes on word-symbols in Soviet political culture. // "East": Almanac. - V. No. 12 (24), December 2004.
    • Georgy Khazagerov Political Rhetoric. § 4. The system of persuasive speeches in the Lenin and Stalin eras. evArtist website (author's project of Ekaterina Aleeva). (unavailable link - story) Retrieved August 20, 2008.

    It was not in vain that Vladimir Lenin became a well-known publicist, which allowed him to start a political career in the Bolshevik Party. A native of Simbirsk was well-read and rich in language. This allowed him to use a variety of catch phrases in his public speeches, which, thanks to Soviet propaganda, went to the people. Lenin's quotes are often used in everyday speech, and sometimes people do not even realize that some phrases belong to the leader of the proletariat.

    "There is such a party!"

    One of Lenin's most famous phrases is the exclamation "There is such a party!". In the summer of 1917, the All-Russian Congress of Soviets was held in Petrograd. It was attended by representatives of various parties, including the Bolsheviks.

    Chairman Irakli Tsereteli asked those present in the hall whether there is a party that is ready to take power into its own hands at a difficult moment for the country and be responsible for all its decisions in such a difficult situation. The question was asked for a reason, because for several months the most diverse sections of Russian society were dissatisfied with the Provisional Government and its decisions. But no one saw an obvious alternative to the existing government.

    In response to Tsereteli's question, Lenin, who was also present at the congress, stood up. He declared: "There is such a party!", referring to his own Bolshevik party. The hall responded with applause and laughter. No one could imagine that the Bolsheviks would come to power, and Lenin's quotes would come true.

    "Who does not work shall not eat"

    Many of Lenin's quotations ended up in his critical articles. Most of Ulyanov's journalistic activity fell on the years of emigration, however, even during the existence of the USSR, he continued to be published, this time in millions of copies.

    For example, his phrase "Who does not work, he does not eat" has become widespread. With this passage, Lenin criticized the parasites who did not help the young Soviet economy develop against the backdrop of the consequences of the Civil War. It is interesting that a similar phrase is found in the Bible, but in a slightly different form. Lenin himself considered the call to work the main commandment of socialism, on which the ideology of the Soviet state should be based. The phrase became widespread in May 1918, when it appeared in a letter from a revolutionary to the Petrograd workers. A little later, the slogan "Who does not work, he does not eat" was directly used in the first Constitution of the RSFSR.

    "Study, study, study!"

    The call "Learn, study, study!" was also used by Soviet propaganda to motivate the masses. Most likely, Lenin used this phrase in one of his articles after reading Chekhov. In the story “My Life”, the classic of literature was marked by a similar appeal.

    Ilyich did not like the education system under the tsarist government. This explains what Lenin said about the Russians. The leader's quotes about education were often used in the interiors of schools and universities in the Soviet Union.

    "We'll go the other way"

    One of Lenin's most mythologized phrases is rightfully considered the replica "We will go the other way." According to the point of view of the official Soviet ideology, young Volodya uttered it after he learned about the death of his older brother and was executed for his intention to deal with Emperor Alexander III. Lenin, by his phrase, meant that his future struggle against the tsarist regime would be based not on individual terror, but on propaganda among the masses. In Soviet and Russian life, this phrase is already used without reference to the revolutionary events of the 20th century, but refers directly to the topic of conversation.

    Given the significant role of their author in the history and culture of the USSR, many of them have become popular expressions. At the same time, a number of quotations in their well-known formulation do not belong to Lenin, but first appeared in literary works and cinema. These statements became widespread in the political and everyday languages ​​of the USSR and post-Soviet Russia.

    "We'll go the other way"

    After the execution of his elder brother Alexander in 1887 as a member of the Narodnaya Volya conspiracy to attempt on the life of Emperor Alexander III, Vladimir Ulyanov allegedly said: “We will go the other way,” which meant his rejection of the methods of individual terror. In fact, this phrase is taken and paraphrased from the poem "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" by Vladimir Mayakovsky.

    And then
    said
    Ilyich seventeen-year-old -
    this word
    stronger than oaths
    a soldier with a raised hand:
    - Brother,
    we are here
    ready to change you
    we will win
    but we will go the other way

    According to the memoirs of the elder sister Anna Ilyinichna, Vladimir Ulyanov said the phrase in a different wording: “No, we will not go that way. This is not the way to go.". The expression became widespread thanks to the painting of the same name by P. P. Belousov.

    "Every cook must learn to run the state"

    In the article “Will the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?” (originally published in October 1917 in No. 1-2 of the Enlightenment magazine) Lenin wrote:
    "We are not utopians. We know that any unskilled worker and any cook is not capable of immediately entering into government. In this we agree with the Cadets, and with Breshkovskaya, and with Tsereteli. But we differ from these citizens in that we demand immediate a break with the prejudice that only the rich or from wealthy families should be able to govern the state, to carry out the day-to-day work of administration, we demand that public administration be taught by conscious workers and This immediately began to attract all the working people, all the poor."

    The option “Any cook can run the state”, attributed to V.I. Lenin, does not belong to him, but is often used in criticizing socialism and Soviet power. The option "Any cook should rule the state" is also used. Lenin had in mind, first of all, that even a cook, as a representative of the broad masses of working people, must learn to govern the state, must be involved in state administration.

    The expression was used by V. V. Mayakovsky in the poem "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin":

    Walkway with a tablecloth!
    We and the cook
    every
    learn
    run the state!

    “Of all the arts, cinema is the most important for us”

    Lenin's famous phrase "You must firmly remember that of all the arts cinema is the most important for us" is based on Lunacharsky's memoirs about a conversation with Lenin in February 1922, set out in a letter to Boltyansky dated January 29, 1925 (ref. No. 190) which was published:

    in the book by G. M. Boltyansky "Lenin and Cinema". - M.: L., 1925 - S.19; published excerpts from the letter, this is the first known publication;
    in the magazine "Soviet Cinema" No. 1-2 for 1933 - P.10; the letter is published in full;
    in the edition of V. I. Lenin. Complete Works, ed. 5th. M .: Publishing house of political literature, 1970 - T. 44 - P. 579; An excerpt from the letter was published with a link to the magazine "Soviet Cinema".

    In the context of the conversation, Lenin spoke about the tasks of the development of communist cinema, noted the need for "a certain proportion between fascinating films and scientific films", emphasized the role of the chronicle, from which it is necessary to begin "the production of new films imbued with communist ideas and reflecting Soviet reality", stressed the need censorship (“Of course, censorship is still needed. Counter-revolutionary and immoral tapes should not have a place”) and at the end of the conversation he added: “you are known among us as the patron of art, so you must firmly remember that of all the arts, cinema is the most important for us » . In this form, the phrase can be understood as a call to Lunacharsky to pay special attention to cinema in comparison with the "traditional" art forms that are closer to him.

    Many mistakenly believe that the phrase sounded different, and such distortions fall into seemingly authoritative sources, for example, "While the people are illiterate, of all the arts, cinema and the circus are the most important for us."

    "Study, study and study"

    The well-known words of Lenin "study, study and study" were written by him in the work "The Reverse Direction of Russian Social Democracy", written at the end of 1899 and published in 1924 in the journal "Proletarian Revolution" No. 8-9:
    "While educated society is losing interest in honest, illegal literature, a passionate desire for knowledge and socialism is growing among the workers, real heroes stand out among the workers who - despite the ugly conditions of their lives, despite the stupefying hard labor in the factory, - find in themselves so much character and willpower to study, study and study and develop out of themselves conscious Social Democrats, "working intelligentsia".

    Perhaps Lenin used the phrase of A.P. Chekhov from the work “My Life (A Provincial’s Story)”, ch. VI, the first publication of which was in the supplement to the "Niva" in 1896:

    We need to study, study and study, but with deep

    let's wait for social trends: we have not yet grown up to them and, in conscience, do not understand anything in them.

    A similar repetition was made in the article “Better less, but better” (Pravda, No. 49, March 4, 1923):

    We must at all costs set ourselves the task of renewing our state apparatus: firstly, to study, secondly, to study, and thirdly, to study and then check that science does not remain a dead letter or a fashionable phrase ( and this, there is nothing to hide a sin, happens especially often with us), so that science really enters into flesh and blood, turns into an integral element of everyday life in a completely and real way.

    In the report at the IV Congress of the Comintern “Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution” (“Pravda”, No. 258, November 15, 1922; Bulletin of the IV Congress of the Communist International, No. 8 of November 16, 1922), the word was repeated twice :

    "Soviet schools, workers' faculties have been founded, several hundred thousand young people are studying, studying, perhaps too quickly, but, in any case, the work has begun, and I think that this work will bear fruit."
    “The whole party and all sections of Russia prove this with their thirst for knowledge. This desire for learning shows that the most important task for us now is: to study and study.”

    In the “Plans of the Report “Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution” at the IV Congress of the Comintern” (“Pravda”, No. 17. January 21, 1926; the journal “Questions of the History of the CPSU.” - 1959. - No. 2.) says:

    It will be even better if we continue to study (I guarantee you this)

    It is a common misconception that Lenin first uttered this phrase at the III All-Russian Congress of the RKSM on October 2, 1920. In fact, in this speech, the words “study” and “study communism” were repeatedly heard, but the word “study” was not repeated by him three times.

    “In fact, this is not a brain, but shit” (about bourgeois intellectuals)

    Lenin's phrase about bourgeois intellectuals is well-known: "In fact, this is not the brain [of the nation], but shit."

    It is found in his letter to A. M. Gorky, sent on September 15, 1919 to Petrograd, which the author begins with a message about the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) on September 11, 1919: “we decided to appoint Kamenev and Bukharin to the Central Committee to verify the arrest of bourgeois intellectuals near-Cadet type and for the release of whom it is possible. For it is clear to us that here, too, there were mistakes.")

    And he explains:

    “It is wrong to confuse the ‘intellectual forces’ of the people with the ‘forces’ of bourgeois intellectuals. I will take Korolenko as their model: I recently read his pamphlet War, Fatherland and Humanity, written in August 1917. Korolenko is, after all, the best of the "near-Cadet" ones, almost a Menshevik. And what a vile, vile, vile defense of the imperialist war, covered up with sugary phrases! Pitiful tradesman, captivated by bourgeois prejudices! For such gentlemen, the 10,000,000 killed in the imperialist war is a cause worthy of support (by deeds, with sugary phrases "against" the war), while the death of hundreds of thousands in a just civil war against the landowners and capitalists causes ahs, oohs, sighs, hysterics.

    No. It is not a sin for such “talents” to spend weeks in prison if this is to be done to prevent conspiracies (like Krasnaya Gorka) and the death of tens of thousands. And we have uncovered these conspiracies of the Cadets and "near-Cadets". And we know that professors close to the Cadets give help to the conspirators all the time. It is a fact.

    The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and strengthening in the struggle to overthrow the bourgeoisie and its accomplices, the intellectuals, lackeys of capital, who imagine themselves to be the brains of the nation. In fact, this is not a brain, but a g ...

    We pay higher than average salaries to the "intellectual forces" who want to bring science to the people (and not to serve capital). It is a fact. We protect them."

    "There is such a party!"

    "There is such a party!" - a catchphrase uttered by V. I. Lenin at the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets in response to the thesis of the Menshevik I. G. Tsereteli.

    "Political prostitute"

    Not a single document has been preserved where Lenin directly uses this term. But there is plenty of evidence that he used the word "prostitutes" in relation to his political opponents (bund). In particular, a letter from Lenin to the Central Committee of the RSDLP dated September 7, 1905 has been preserved where he wrote:

    “For God's sake, don't hurry with an official resolution and don't yield one iota to this Bundist-new Iskra conference. Really without protocols will be?? Is it possible to conference with these prostitutes without protocols?

    « Better less is better »

    The title of an article from 1923 on measures to be taken to strengthen and improve the Soviet state apparatus. Published in Pravda, No. 49, March 4, 1923.

    "Who does not work shall not eat"

    A phrase that occurs in many of Lenin's works ("State and Revolution", "Will the Bolsheviks retain state power?", "How to organize a competition?", "On the famine (letter to St. Petersburg workers)", etc.), where it is called the "commandment socialism" or "the root principle of socialism". The expression was included in the text of the 12th article of the Constitution of the USSR in 1936.

    It is noteworthy that the original phrase is taken from the New Testament: "... When we were with you, we commanded you this: if anyone does not want to work, then do not eat" (2 Thess. 3:10).

    “Trade unions are the school of communism”

    The slogan put forward in relation to the trade unions of the Soviet era. One of Ilyich's testaments. For the first time, the expression appeared in April 1920 in Lenin's work "The childhood illness of" leftism "in communism" even before the start of a broad discussion about trade unions. There is this characteristic in his article “Once again about the trade unions, about the current situation and about the mistakes of vols. Trotsky and Bukharin", written in January 1921. Subsequently, Lenin repeats the thesis about trade unions as a school of management, a school of management, a school of communism in the “Draft Theses on the Role and Tasks of Trade Unions in the Conditions of the New Economic Policy” in January 1922.

    It is well known that all quotations and statements of this or that historical figure should be considered not only in the context of the entire speech, article or book, but in relation to a specific historical situation. In other words, before you quote anything, you need to know where, when, under what circumstances these words were spoken (written). Then their true meaning will be understood. But it often happens that the layman who does not bother himself with such work falls into the networks cleverly placed by falsifiers of history and himself becomes the object of manipulation by consciousness.

    Here are a few quotes taken offhand by V.I. Lenin, which have long been the object of attacks by anti-communists of all stripes and subject them to historical analysis.

    "Any cook is capable of running the state."

    The phrase "Any cook is capable of governing the state", attributed to V. I. Lenin, is often used in criticizing socialism and the Soviet regime, as well as its version "Any cook should rule the state."

    But the fact is that the quote attributed to V. I. Lenin (and sometimes L. Trotsky) “any cook is capable of governing the state” does not belong to him!

    In the article “Will the Bolsheviks Retain State Power” (Poln. Sobr. Works, vol. 34, p. 315), Lenin wrote: “We are not utopians. We know that any unskilled laborer and any cook are not able to immediately enter into government of the state ... But we ... demand an immediate break with the prejudice that only the rich or taken from rich families can govern the state, carry out the everyday, daily work of government. We demand that public administration be taught by conscious workers and soldiers and that it be started immediately, that is, all working people, all the poor, should be immediately involved in this training.

    Feel the difference!

    “In fact, this is not a brain, but shit” (about the intelligentsia)

    Lenin’s well-known phrase about the intelligentsia: “In fact, it’s not a brain, but shit,” anti-Soviet intellectuals each time put forward as an indicator of the attitude of the Soviet leader to this stratum of society and his supposedly low intellectual level. Let's see how it really was.

    Lenin, in a letter to A. M. Gorky, sent on September 15, 1919 to Petrograd, spoke quite sharply about the intelligentsia (in particular, about V. G. Korolenko), who uncompromisingly opposes the “fair”, according to Lenin, Civil War, but does not sufficiently condemn what happened in the First World War; about the inadmissibility of mixing the “intellectual forces” of the people ... with the “forces” of bourgeois intellectuals who refuse to cooperate constructively with the new government and participate in various conspiracies and subversive actions. In the letter, Lenin also acknowledges the facts of erroneous arrests of the intelligentsia, the facts of assistance to the "intellectual forces" who want to bring science to the people (and not to serve the capital)", and mentions the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) on September 11, 1919, where the issue of arrests of bourgeois intellectuals (the Politburo invited F. E. Dzerzhinsky, N. I. Bukharin and L. B. Kamenev to reconsider the cases of those arrested).

    It is difficult not to agree with Ilyich.

    "Political prostitute"

    Not a single document has been preserved where Lenin directly uses this term. But there is plenty of evidence that he used the word "prostitutes" in relation to his political opponents. In particular, a letter from Lenin to the Central Committee of the RSDLP dated September 7, 1905 has been preserved, where he wrote: “Is it really possible to conference with these prostitutes without protocols?”

    Oh, if only Lenin had lived to this day… I would have seen enough of these representatives of the ancient profession, who have settled in government offices.

    "We'll go the other way"

    And here is the real legend. But positive. After the execution of his elder brother Alexander in 1887 as a member of the Narodnaya Volya conspiracy to attempt on the life of Emperor Alexander III, Vladimir Ulyanov allegedly uttered the phrase: “We will go the other way,” which meant his rejection of the methods of individual terror. In fact, this phrase is taken and paraphrased from the poem "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" by Vladimir Mayakovsky.

    And then he said

    Ilyich seventeen-year-old -

    this word is stronger than oaths

    a soldier with a raised hand:

    Brother, we are ready to change you here,

    we will win, but we will go the other way.

    According to the memoirs of Anna Ilyinichna's elder sister, Vladimir Ulyanov expressed a different phrase: “No, we will not go this way. This is not the way to go."

    Well, in the end, Alexander Nevsky utters his famous words “Whoever comes to us with a sword will die by the sword” only in Eisenstein's film. But after all, with these words, he only confirms the activities of the historical Nevsky, who nevertheless defeated the enemy who came with a sword to Rus'. And Lenin, all the more, went to another path, previously not passed by anyone. Maybe he didn't say it, but he did it!

    "Violence is necessary and useful"

    Lenin's opponents like to take this quote out of context with a distortion of meaning. And they do it because in context it looks completely different.

    "There are conditions under which violence is both necessary and useful, and there are conditions under which violence cannot produce any results." PSS, 5th ed., vol. 38, p.43, "Successes and difficulties of the Soviet government", 1919.

    "Let 90% of the Russian people perish, if only 10% survived until the world revolution."

    A lie, which, unfortunately, was widely spread with the light hand of the writer Soloukhin. Let's see how this lie is refuted by the Russian historian and philosopher Vadim Kozhinov in his two-volume Russia. Vek XX”: “Vladimir Soloukhin claims that in 1918 Lenin “threw a catchphrase: let 90% of the Russian people perish, if only 10% survived until the world revolution. It was then that Dzerzhinsky's deputy Latsis (in fact, the chairman of the Cheka of the 5th Army. - V.K.) ... published in the Red Terror newspaper on November 1, 1918, a kind of instruction to all his subordinates: "... We exterminate the bourgeoisie as a class ... Do not look for material and evidence during the investigation that the accused acted in deed or word against the Soviet regime ... But, firstly, this “catch phrase” does not belong to Lenin, but to G.E. Zinoviev, who, moreover, spoke nevertheless about the death of 10, and not 90%, and, secondly, having familiarized himself with the same magazine (and not the newspaper) Red Terror, Lenin immediately stated, not without harshness: “. ..it’s not at all necessary to agree on such absurdities, which Comrade Latsis wrote in his Kazan magazine “Red Terror” ... on page 2 in N 1: “do not look (!!?) in the case for accusatory evidence about whether he is against the Council with weapons or words ... ”(V.I. Lenin. Poln. sobr. soch., vol. 37, p. 310).

    Agree, if we turn to a reliable source, then the picture of historical reality appears completely different than all sorts of intellectual inconsistencies impose on us. However, wasn't it about them that Lenin wrote in his letter to Gorky?

    And in conclusion, we will give a few quotes from Lenin that do not cause such fierce disputes and do not lose their relevance to this day.

    A WORD TO COMRADE LENIN

    "The universal faith in the revolution is already the beginning of the revolution." - "The Fall of Port Arthur" (January 14 (1), 1905). - PSS, 5th ed., vol. 9, p. 159.

    “One device of the bourgeois press always and in all countries turns out to be the most popular and “unmistakably” valid. Lie, make noise, shout, repeat the lie - "something will remain." PSS, 5th ed., vol. 31, p. 217, Union of Lies, April 13 (26), 1917.

    "Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness." PSS, 5th ed., vol. 20, p. 210, "Polemical Notes", March 1911.

    “We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. We use them incorrectly. Why say "defects" when you can say shortcomings, or shortcomings, or gaps? .. Isn't it time for us to declare war on the use of foreign words without need? - "On the Purification of the Russian Language" (written in 1919 or 1920; first published December 3, 1924). - PSS, 5th ed., vol. 40, p. 49.

    “People have always been and always will be stupid victims of deception and self-deception in politics until they learn to look for the interests of certain classes behind any moral, religious, political, social phrases, statements, promises.” - "Three sources and three components of Marxism" (March 1913). - PSS, 5th ed., Vol. 23, p. 47.

    “If I know that I know little, I will succeed in knowing more, but if a person says that he is a communist and that he does not need to know anything solid, then nothing like a communist will come of him.” - "The tasks of youth unions." Speech at the III All-Russian Congress of the Russian Communist Youth Union on October 2, 1920. - PSS, 5th ed., Vol. 41, ss. 305-306.

    "Indifference is the silent support of the one who is strong, the one who dominates." - "The Socialist Party and Non-Party Revolutionism", II (December 2, 1905). - PSS, 5th ed., vol. 12, p. 137.

    "Patriotism is one of the deepest feelings, fixed for centuries and millennia of isolated fatherlands." - Valuable confessions of Pitirim Sorokin (November 20, 1918). - PSS, 5th ed., Vol. 37, p. 190.

    “... Only then will we learn to win when we are not afraid to admit our defeats and shortcomings, when we will look the truth, even the saddest one, straight in the face.” - Report of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars on December 23, 1921 "On the domestic and foreign policy of the republic" at the IX All-Russian Congress of Soviets. - PSS, 5th ed., Vol. 44, p. 309.

    “Less political chatter. Less intelligent reasoning. Closer to life. - “On the nature of our newspapers” (September 20, 1918). - PSS, 5th ed., Vol. 37, p. 91.

    Prepared by Dmitry Pisarev



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