Vladimir Lenin Quotes
We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, scorn, and the like, toward those who disagree with us.
Nikolai Lenin, 1870-1924, Russian Communist Premier, a 1903 quote found in Eastman, Max "The Religion of Immoralism, Reflections on the Failure of Socialism” (New York: Devin-Adair, 1955), Chap. 7, p. 83.
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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.
