(Vladimir I. Lenin)
For many years historians have laid the blame for the oppressive and authoritarian regime that took root in Russia following its revolution on Joseph Stalin. Names like NKVD, GPU or banishment to Siberia, political purges were all associated with the Russian dictator. However, the credit for the darkness that pervaded the former Soviet Union first must rest at the feet of Vladimir I. Lenin. In 1973 Alexsandr S. Solzhenitsyn published the first volume of his GULAG ARCHIPELAGO, and the famous Russian dissident argued that the origin of Soviet terror and the police state belong to Lenin. This argument has been accepted by historians and in the latest biography of Lenin since Robert Service’s excellent monograph, Victor Sebestyen’s LENIN: THE MAN, THE DICTATOR, AND THE MASTER OF TERROR has taken that argument to a new level. According to Sebestyen, in his quest for power, Lenin “promised people anything…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Apr 24, 2018 @ 21:50:55
really really interesting. Definitely in my Around the traps with attribution top you of course
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