He died in execution

They constantly encroach on this person: on the living, on the dead, on the monuments, even on his fleeting notes.

The angelic face in October Star, a harsh profile on the Komsomol banner, portraits, busts, monuments, books, performances, cinema ... The image of Lenin accompanied the Soviet man from the diapers to the grave. He became his part, curse, dream and flour.

The good ruler touchingly feels the sheets of the great proletarian writer for their humidity. A cruel dictator requires hanging and shooting priests and officers at the slightest opportunity. I remember that even in harsh (in an ideological sense) Soviet times, the highest chic was considered to dumb the teacher of the “History of the CPSU” by the unexpected quote of the leader. He quite often refuted himself, not to mention the foundations of a primitive “brief course” and the usual official ideas about the events that “turned the world”.

What can we say about the journalism of the period of “publicity” and “rampant democracy”! Everything was mixed. The image of the leader of the world proletariat scattered into thousands of ice floes. And every former Soviet man is free to choose for his eyes his own piece of the flesh of a great man. You can take a note with the requirement to "hang". It is only worth remembering that the passionate polemicist Ulyanov very often did not choose expressions. What is called, "for the sake of a red word, he will not regret his father." And we can keep in mind that the capable youth of the end of the age of the nineteenth “into the revolution” was certainly not from career or skip reasons. In addition to prisons, wandering and persecution, they did not shine any other dividends.

Marxists traditionally ironically assess the role of a particular person in an objective historical process. What did not prevent the Communists from creating icons from living people and force them to worship the population of a huge country. Nevertheless, it is difficult to find a figure in world history, which had a greater impact on tragic cataclysms, ups and falls of a twentieth century than Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

For some reason, the October Revolution is sometimes called a coup. A matter of taste, of course. But the fact that these ten days really “turned over the world” is impossible to challenge. It is impossible to challenge the personal contribution of Mr. Ulyanov to these historical events. Those who doubt the ingenious insight of the Simbirsk guy indicate that his prophecies about socialism and the world revolution did not come true or came true completely differently from the leader of the world proletariat ... It should be reminded that not the evening. And the pendulum is still swinging and swinging. The fact that capitalism is “before Ilyich” and after are two different things. And our today's “capitalism” breeds so many dead ends and questions that its future is more than vague.

Today, on the birthday of Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin, it is worth recalling that in the history of our Fatherland he was the last leader who had almost died during his performance. The rest were dying of a natural death. And they are still encroach on Lenin.

The last little -known crime occurred on September 1, 1973. Another hater hid the explosives under his clothes and, having caught up with the sarcophagus, managed to connect the wires of the explosive device. The mummy was not injured, a married couple from Astrakhan died and four schoolchildren were seriously injured. It was the first day of the new school year, and the Moscow schools began familiarization with the knowledge of pilgrimage to the leader ... Heavy shells were received by guard fighters. Part of the head and hand remained from the terrorist.

Symbolic and instructive. And what remains of us all after twenty years of “destruction of the foundations”?

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