Lenin as drift
Sir, — “Lenin is the only deity allowed at the moment,” wrote Clive James in his article on the U.S.S.R. (“The Press.” May 30). Lenin’s record must be put straight. He wrote: “After their death an attempt is made to convert them (revolutionary leaders) into inoffensive icons, to canonise them, so to speak, to surround their name with an aureole of glory for the consolation and the deception of the oppressed classes, while the real substance of their revolutionary teaching is emasculated, its incisiveness dulled, and the doctrine debased.” Lenin held these views to the end, for after his death Krupskaya, his wife, wrote: “Dio not raise monuments to him ... do not organise pompous ceremonies in his memory . . . he took little account of that kind of thing, which distressed him.” —Yours, etc., PATRICK NEARY. May 31, 1977.
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