Mitya Aleshkovsky: “About Grandfather Lenin”

“And I thought, because in many ways, it is Lenin who is to blame for the way we live now, and the current political regime, in many ways, resembles Lenin’s regime. We are still experiencing many of the consequences of the activities of the leader of the world proletariat, and, of course, , one of the main consequences is the inhumanity that permeates everything around.

This is an inhumane state apparatus, officials, functionaries, institutions, laws, for which, as for Lenin’s officials, a person is only a unit in reporting, and whether he is dead or alive is just an additional status on which it depends on which form to put a plus sign in.”