What do you esp. Russians think about Lenin (Vladimir Lenin) the Russian leader ??

Question

I am not Russian. Are there any leaders like him, now in Russia ? Would he be considered a great leader like say Abraham Lincoln ...the American president ?!

Answer 1

i'm a russian, live in russia, was born and lived for quite a while in SU. analyzing the history i can quite a few things about ulyanov, which was actual last name of lenin.

well, first he was quite an educated man for that time and quite intelligent one, e.g. he graduated from a university without actually learning there - just via passing final exams.

then he was an utopist. he clung to apply in practice a concept which has failed in lower scales. if you would take time to read what the communism is all about, i trust you'd find it a nice concept, though very difficult to apply.

then he was not very good at plots, because let himself overthrown.

then, he did not care much of the future, especially regarding international relations. first he abandoned the allies in WW1. then he 'nationalized' all the property, which took great deal of international capital. then he denied all the debt by russian empire. than he declared the doctrine of world revolution, which means further losses to the capital abroad. these are the major components that made soviet union isolated from capitalistic countries, which resulted in worse economic development; and hatred towards soviet union from all the 'capitalist' countries mostly ruled by people of great wealth and fearful to lose that wealth. situation then was well different from now. ideas like communism would have been very popular, and were quite popular despite propaganda, in masses of poor people, e.g. in the US black people who were greatly discriminated by that time by the way. so, people o wealth fearful to lose it started the cold war well before WW2 exactly because of the things lenin did.

it sure would have been another country if not for him. also it is quite likely that we would have lost WW2. it's rather a simple choice for me: i'd rather be alive and oppressed by the US like it is now than be dead & my country occupied as per hitler's plan. point is he could have make things better than he did, well better. however without him it's quite likely would have been a disaster.

i heard lincoln is greatly rspected in the US by the most of people. well, lenin is not really respected in russia. some do respect him, many not and most do not care. he was a distinguished political figure and few generations were fed on propaganda about him, but now that's gone.

whether anyone like him now in russia? well, there's a plenty of utopists, yet i believe no one with his kind of intelligence. pretty intelligent person he was. shame he did not use it to the fullest.

good luck to you.
mickael

Answer 2

Lenin was the first big communist leader, i don't know if anyone thinks of him as a hero in Russia, but I come from Latvia.

Latvia was occupied by the soviet union, thousands of latvian people were just killed at that time or deported to Siberia. A lot of them died on the way or there, because of the horrible climate, i know many people, whose relatives were on those trains, I have some relatives, that were on those trains. Russia was a part of the soviet union, not THE soviet union. Of course Stalin was worse then Lenin, but the union was the worst, it doesn't matter what leader they had. It is awfully important that you don't say that he was the russian leader, because he wasn't. He was the first leader of the soviet union. Russia was just a part of it.

Now in Russia there isn't democracy, Putin isn't interested in democracy. The ones that are being punished with this kind of behavior are the russians, this kind of regime, that now rules in Russia is there, because of communism. There are a lot of problems in all of the countries, that were touched by the soviet union. So how can Lenin be considered as a great leader?

Answer 3

The vast majority of Russians feel that Lenin destroyed Russian culture and enslaved the people.

There are still a small core of mostly very old Russians who still believe that Stalin was the saviour of Russia.

Most Russians I communicate with believe Russia would be a much more powerful country if Lenin had not succeeded.

Answer 4

Lenin was the moderate communist, but Stalin was the dictatorship. Lenin allowed small private ownership, but Stalin was not
NO. because, Lincoln was the capitalist

Answer 5

Stalin

Answer 6

i'm not russian but russians (esp. in olden days) saw Lenin as a hero. Or were made to believe he was...
Same difference