People still think that dying is sometimes a relief but it seems that this is not true for Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the revolutionary Russian proletarian movement. Lenin was born in 1870 and died in 1924. Nearly a century away, this character is still a subject of controversy that is even divisive in public opinion in Russia and some Eastern European countries. His statues were dismantled in many places, his body was in the same fate as Vietnam’s late President Ho Chi Minh, chilled by the communist comrades and brought to the mausoleum regardless of whatever his will.
On the occasion of Lenin’s 150th birthday, the city of Moscow had to remove a slogan affixed to his large statue still in the Russian capital which was demanding removal of the structure.
According to Russian newspapers on April 21, 2020, a banner inscribed with the words “The object of communist disarmament” was affixed by some people on the pedestal of a statue of Lenin and farm workers in Moscow the previous night.
Moscow authorities quickly removed the banner, according to Dozhd TV.
However, the picture was shared by anti-communist campaigning groups on the social network Vkontakte in Russia.
So far, many countries that used to belong to the Soviet Union have removed Lenin statues from public places.
Regarding the Lenin statue in Moscow, local congressmen argued last year over a proposal by the anti-communist Russian nationalist faction to move the statue to Kaluzhskaya Ploshchad.
Lenin’s corpse has also been a divisive topic for years in politics and public opinion in Russia.
Earlier this week, a Russian MP Natalya Poklonskaya reiterated a call made by some high-ranking officials in Russia that it was time to remove Lenin’s body from the mausoleum.
Ms. Poklonskaya said the body in the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square, is “a legacy that is pulling us back into the past.”
In November 2018, a St Petersburgh MP, Vladimir Petrov, suggested that by 2024, on the 100th anniversary of Lenin’s death, he should be removed from the mausoleum and replaced with a wax or rubber statue.
Immediately, party official ‘Russian Communists’, Sergei Malinkovich, countered and demanded criminal law to handle “acts of offending religious sentiments.”
According to him, if considering Marxism-Leninism as a religion, Mr. Peskov’s words “certainly offended the believers” and violated two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
But then, according to Russian newspapers, no lawsuits have occurred, possibly because the allegations are only on the margins of Russian politics.
Mr. Malinkovich’s party is actually just a small organization, not as prestigious as the “Communist Party of Russia,” which has MPs in the National Duma.
Commentators argue that the assessment of Lenin’s career status as a historical figure is now separate from Lenin as the object of ideological belief.
In short, Lenin was politicized shortly after his death.
Lenin himself had expressed his wish to be buried next to his mother in his homeland, but Stalin ordered him mummified and put into a mausoleum as a symbol of the “forever” of the Soviet regime.
So who is Lenin and for centuries, people still debate about his body and statues?
Lenin was the developer of the doctrine of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. He was the head of government of the Soviet Union Socialist Republic from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.
In Vietnam, he was considered a prominent political theorist, a communist, he successfully developed a variant of Marxism (Marxism) called Leninism.
Vietnamese students under the socialist school are taught as: Lenin is the outstanding leader of the working class and working people worldwide. Lenin developed Marxism theory of socialism and the path to socialism and became an exemplary model of applying Marxist theory to the cause of building socialism in specific conditions of Russia. And the Communist Party of Vietnam has consistently applied, supplemented and developed Lenin’s thought in the renewal process in Vietnam.
The world sees Lenin as a symbol of the violent communist model in Russia after 1917.
As the first founder of the proletariat state globally, during his entire life, Lenin was more or less a supporter of the application of revolutionary violence as a necessary and prerequisite means to address these conflict in society and politics.
His authoritarian and undemocratic made big faces, the same ideal – like Rosa Luxemburg, or literary writer Maxim Gorky – must complain.
At the same time, the most elite elements of the traditional Russian intelligentsia were forced to leave their homeland – the beginning of a bad practice in the Soviet Union that the government could banish righteous people if they feel that someone may be unfit or unfavorable to them.
It was also a crime of Lenin – who understood the power of knowledge so he was very strong with the intellectuals, with the traditional Russian culture.
Therefore, it is possible that for the Communist Party of Russia, or for someone, Lenin (once) was an idol, but just need to read a bit of true historical research to know Lenin’s legacy. How harmful it is to a significant part of humanity.
The communism created by Lenin was criticized by his later comrades in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe because its administration and the policy of governing policies have caused serious, comprehensive and long-term consequences to the people and the country.
Mr. Mikhail Gorbachov was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in the totalitarian dictatorship of the Soviet Union (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), and was the first president in the Republic Federation of Russia formed after the collapse of the Soviet communist regime and was also a decisive contributor to the transition from the totalitarian regime of the Soviet Union to the democratic rule of law of the Russian Federation on now states: “I have spent more than half my life on the communist ideals. Today I am sad to admit that: The Communist Party can only propagate and lie … ”
Boris Yeltsin, a “counter-reflective” communist party member, succeeding Mikhail Gorbachev as the second President of Democratic Russia, said: “Communism cannot be repaired, they must be dismissed.”
Incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin, who once led the Soviet Central Intelligence Agency (KGB), also stated, “Whoever believes in communism, has no head. Whoever does follow instruction of the communist, has no heart.”
Yugoslavian Party General Secretary Milovan Djilas also once stated, “20 years without a communist, without a heart.” 40 years old without giving up communism, is without a head.“
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on May 7, 2009, on the occasion of Germany’s anniversary of the 1989 Democratic Rebellion Movement in East Germany against the fraudulent elections on May 7, 1989 in the East Germany, said: “Communism has made people lie.” Merkel strongly condemned: “East Germany has become the most tightly controlled prison system in the world. But what destroys this immoral system is the desire for justice and the truth of the German people, which is the “basis for democracy”, we are enjoying freedom and justice in 20 last year, today we cannot and do not want to forget all the injustices that happened due to communism.”
Mrs. Merkel was a person who had grown up and matured in the cradle of communist East Germany and was trained and trained from within this dictatorial, authoritarian regime.
Socialism and communism are a subject that incumnent US President Donald Trump has repeatedly condemned over the years.
At the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 19, 2017, he stated: “From the Soviet Union to Cuba and Venezuela, wherever socialism or communism is imposed, it brings suffering, destruction and failure. Those who propagate the doctrine of these discredited ideologies only contribute to the prolonged suffering of people living under these cruel systems.”
At the 73 UN General Assembly in New York on September 25, 2018, he went on to say: “Almost everywhere socialism or communism has been tried, they have caused suffering and corruption. The thirst for power of socialism leads to expansion, annexation and oppression. All nations of the world need to oppose the socialism and the poverty it brings to everyone.”
At the 73 UN General Assembly on September 24, 2019, he continued to express his thorough views from the previous two sessions: “Socialism and communism are not for justice, equality, not the uplifting of the poor, and of course not for the good of the country. Socialism and communism are for one thing only: the power of the ruling class.”
The US leader added: “One of the most serious challenges nations face is the specter of socialism. It is a national sabotage, a social massacre. ”
Since his election as president, three times at the annual General Assembly at the United Nations General Assembly have been the three times Trump has bluntly criticized and harshly condemned communism, without dodging or drilling ceding and calling countries against this model.
Because of the suffering that socialism and communism brought to the people of the Soviet Union in particular and humanity in general, Lenin, the leader of the Soviet Communist Party, had to receive the “estrangement,” shunned of the people of the former Soviet Union countries and a significant part of the people in Russia, the country that inherited the Soviet Union.
Moreover, it was the idea of the socialist generation that Lenin built that made his final will not be realized and his body put on display for political purposes.
This is also a lesson for the authorities in Hanoi, to soon remove the remaining monuments of Lenin and cremate the remains of Ho Chi Minh in accordance with his will left to the Communist Party and the Vietnamese people.
Hoang Trung from Hanoi – Thoibao.de (Translated)
