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Julius Skoolafish's avatar

Putin on Marxism-Leninism – a “pernicious fairy tale”

“I think that history is something that should be looked on as something that occurred in the past. We can’t erase our history. If you’re interested in how I regard this person [Ulyanov - who called himself Lenin] and the doctrine he represented, I would say that ... there was a period in my life when I was interested in Marxism-Leninism, read a lot with keen interest, found that reading curious, often logical ... as we all did. - Yes, as we all did. But for me I can say, as I grew older, the truth became more and more apparent that all of it was nothing but a beautiful, yet pernicious fairy tale. Pernicious because its ... implementation; the efforts to achieve it in our country caused enormous harm.

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… the other [thing] is they destroyed what united people of the civilized world.

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The only thing they did to keep the country together within common borders was use barbed wire.“

Putin’s response 11 years later: “I have practically nothing more to add. I am ready to repeat it word for word.“

That video has been taken down but can still be found in Russian somewhere. Nevertheless, here is Putin on a related topic …

• Putin Trashes Marx and Lenin: Practice Has Shown That Marxism Was Wrong, Family Matters!

• (Not available in my country)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mERkuxTfg

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Poisoned Kiwi's avatar

Interesting thanks. You may be interested in this.

How Karl Marx is related by marriage to Nathan Rothschild, founder of the London Rothschilds.

https://substack.com/@thepoisonedkiwi/note/c-61004547

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