Vladimir Lenin Quotes
This is only a preliminary step toward a similar revolution everywhere.
Vladimir Lenin. This statement was key in developing a great fear of the Communists by most of the capitalistic world. Most people in the West had seen that the conditions were so terrible in Russia that a revolution might be a good thing for the Russians—even a Communist revolution. But when the new Russian Communist Leader made this statement, most countries then regarded the Russian Communist party as a potential menace and threat to their stability.
Nikolai Lenin, 1870-1924, Russian Communist Premier, Statement after the government had been toppled in the Russian Revolution, November 7, 1917
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The red scare was present in America only 2 years after the Russian Revolution. See {638530} for one of the reasons.
He was even critical of Musselini for trying to maintain soimne fo the old conservative order. This quotation became of interest when in the 2017 hyperpolerized Donald Trump, one of Trumes mosot senior aides, Steve Bannion, who generally argued for radically changing most of the political rules and practices in America was discovered to have been an admirer of some of Evola's views.
- Born: April 22, 1870
- Died: January 21, 1924
- Nationality: Russian
- Profession: Revolutionary, Politician
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Soviet Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.
