Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Ulyanov) (1870 - 1924) - Russian revolutionary, statesman and politician, founder of the workers' party (Bolsheviks), one of the organizers of the October Revolution. A famous and significant person for our history. We cannot miss it. That is why we present to your attention the most interesting facts about Lenin Vladimir Ilyich, which you will certainly enjoy.
1. Vladimir Ulyanov was practically an excellent student. Why round? Because in his certificate there was still one four, namely, in logic. Nevertheless, this did not prevent him from graduating from school with a gold medal.
2. In 1887, Vladimir entered the Faculty of Law at Kazan University. But he did not even study there for a year, as he was expelled for participating in the illegal student circle of Lazar Bogoraz. After that, he was even forbidden to study full-time. Like this.
3. In the same 1887, a tragedy occurred in the Ulyanov family. Volodya's older brother, Alexander, was executed for his part in the plot to assassinate Alexander III. None of the Ulyanovs even knew about the revolutionary spirit of Alexander.
4. Because of the above events, the future leader was on the police list of unreliable people who need to be supervised.
5. In childhood and adolescence, young Lenin was often caught by his mother when he smoked. She did not know how to wean him from this bad habit. No persuasion worked. Lenin continued to smoke. But when the mother said that a lot of money was spent on cigarettes, which was not so much in the Ulyanov family. This became an ironclad argument for the future revolutionary, and since then he has not smoked again.
6. For the first time the pseudonym "Lenin" was mentioned in 1901. But unfortunately, the real origin of the most accustomed pseudonym is not known, although there are several versions.
7. Lenin could have won the Nobel Peace Prize. His candidacy was seriously considered and it was decided to give him this prize in 1918 if there was peace in Russia by 1918. But the outbreak of the civil war deprived the leader of the Nobel Prize.
8. The famous Order of Lenin was awarded several hundred thousand times during its existence. But Vladimir Ilyich himself received only one award in his life, namely the Order of Labor of the Khorezm People's Socialist Republic, which he was awarded in 1922.
9. In honor of the leader, many names were invented, which were called by their children in Soviet times:
10. Vladimir Ilyich was very fond of eating, but Nadezhda Krupskaya did not really know how to cook, so a specially hired cook Eoizaveta Vasilievna was engaged in this work, and there was always a servant in the house. Although Ilyich himself was against the performance of household duties only by women.
11. Lenin is one of the few politicians who did not leave behind his autobiography or describe at least a few pages from his life. All that was found in his archives after his death was a piece of paper in which a couple of lines about his biography were written. Apparently he had already begun to do something, but his hands never reached.
12. Due to the overload and the consequences of the assassination attempt in 1918, our leader became very seriously ill. The best specialists from Germany were called in to treat him. All his illness was led by Otfried Foerster himself, but this did not help the leader. His health condition only worsened. He died on January 21, 1924 at the age of 53.
Chapter 14. LENIN IS A HOMOSEXUALIST.
1. The sensational discoveries of some historians about the alleged non-traditional sexual orientation of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin roam on the Internet and in modern literature. Volkogonov 666th published his secret discoveries on 05/03/1994. Then this article began to circulate on the sites, even today some authors refer to it. It makes sense to quote it in full:
“After an important time, more and more new facts are revealed from the life and work of V.I. Lenin. So from the recently declassified sixth archive of historical and other documents of the party, it became known that Lenin became interested in homosexuality while still studying at Kazan University. So, as a 3rd year student, he raped five first-year students and repeatedly robbed them of their money. When this fact became known, Lenin was expelled from the university, in response to which he organized a political strike, and on the portrait of His Majesty Nicholas the 2nd he added a genital organ in a hanging state. Lenin always traveled to his exiles with two chests of books. The author of these lines had a chance to look into these chests. And what did he see? One of the chests was filled to the brim with obscene pornographic literature of mostly German origin, and it was with this chest that Lenin never parted, while the second was often sent simply by mail, or on any other occasion. Moreover, from the same documents it became known that in order to satisfy their homosexual inclinations during the exile, Y. Sverdlov was sent to Lenin, and they were sent at the expense of party money, and all this was in front of the simple honest people of the village of Shushenskoye. They also attracted a local blacksmith to their depraved orgies, who later boasted to everyone that he had also become a “socialist”. Almost all nights the light burned brightly in Ilyich's exile house, and the belated residents, looking at this, crossed themselves and tried to bypass the house far away. Lenin usually slept during the day. The author also visited the village of Shushenskoye, where a 96-year-old, deaf-mute from birth, rural fool Alafya Semiverstaya told the author the following: At the age of six, Lenin lured her into a house with his obscene books and repeatedly raped her, often using oral sex, after which let her look at some new book with shameful pictures. He saw how Lenin made love with a thin one with a beard, as they later explained to her with Y. Sverdlov. During the “love”, Lenin called Sverdlov Yashenka and Kozlik, and when he moaned and said that it “hurt”, Lenin affectionately patted him on the back and called him a “political prostitute”. All her long life, Alafya Semiverstaya, knowing the greatness of Lenin and fearing Stalin's repressions, did not talk about this side of Lenin's life, and only in our time, during the heyday of glasnost, democracy and the debunking of party and other nomenclature idols, with tears in her eyes and in her voice, she told us this history. Unfortunately, Alafya Semiverstaya died two weeks ago. And in the village of Shushenskoye, a collection of money began to raise a Monument to her, as an innocent victim of political mockery.
“Nothing human is alien to me,” Lenin liked to repeat, laughing. Now we see to what extent he corresponded to this expression.
The text should be attributed to sexual (pornographic) literature, which has nothing to do with history. As heroes of far-fetched scenes (you need to understand what time it is, this is not modernity), persons with the names of revolutionaries are chosen. Naturally, no documents found in the sixth archive of the party are given either by references or copies. In itself, the mention of the archive of the party and the declassification of some documents is the main argument of this entire version. But this falsification, if it claims to convey historical events, was compiled, obviously by people who poorly studied the biographies of Lenin and Sverdlov. It would be enough for them to look at the date of birth of Yakov (1885) and the years of Lenin's stay in Shushenskoye (1897-1900), then they would immediately have to abandon this colorful scene with "Goat" and about a thin beard at 12-13 years old they would have to forget or choose another more suitable hero. The authors should have known that party dues began to be collected from party members only after the second congress of the RSDLP in 1902, and little Yasha (and his name was Yeshua then) could not come to Shushenskoye on party money. The author did not write when he visited Shushenskoye and met with Alafya Seleverstovna. From the figures he cited, it turns out that it took place no later than 1987, and then he could have recorded her story on tape, on a dictaphone (they were already on sale), then there would be material evidence. Of course, a chest with porn literature does not climb into any gate. How could a political prisoner acquire it, collect it, and then move around the country with it. Either the author has an idea that these pictures were sent to Shushenskoye by his sister Maria from Belgium, or during his tour of Europe in 1895 he stuffed this chest with these pictures, illegally smuggled them across the border, and then, when he was sent from prison in Shushenskoye, in Moscow, his mother, Maria Alexandrovna, brought him this precious chest. Some nonsense. Yes, and about the rapist Vladimir Ulyanov, this is incredible nonsense. Lenin was always harsh, categorical, aggressive in words, but when it came to a fight, he always tried to leave, not to get involved. There was even a case in 1918 when bandits stopped his car, he preferred to simply pay them off, although there were weapons in the car. In words, on paper, he was merciless and demanded to shoot thousands of people, and protected his life, Krupskaya, Armand, sisters and mother and avoided any clashes in every possible way.
2. The next discovery on this topic was made by Alexander Kutenev. The journalists of the St. Petersburg newspaper ("New Petersburg") became interested in the new version and on October 27, 1995 published their interview with him:
NP: Alexander Pavlovich, can you tell us more about the illegitimate children of Alexander 3? Alexander 3, indeed, had many illegitimate children, since he was an unrestrained and passionate person. Among the children were historical celebrities. In particular, Alexander Ulyanov, the elder brother of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The fact is that Maria Alexandrovna, Lenin's mother, was a maid of honor at the court of Alexander 2. When Alexander 3 was just a Grand Duke, he had an affair with Maria Alexandrovna, from him she gave birth to a son, Alexander, as a girl. ...... So Maria Alexandrovna indirectly influenced the fate of her eldest son. Not very lucky in such a family and subsequent children. Since Ilya Nikolayevich knew that the children were not his, he treated them as potential objects of his love affection. Sashenka, as the son of the tsar, he never touched, but Volodya got all his ardent unpaternal love. In his youth, Vladimir Ilyich was very attractive. No matter how the mother protested, she was powerless to defend her son: Ilya Nikolaevich reproached her with her own behavior.
NP: And what about Lenin?
AK: He remained a homosexual until the end of his days. By the way, this is known all over the world, only the Soviet people did not know anything and lived in reverent worship of the leader of the proletariat. Antonioni has made a film about the great homosexuals, and Lenin has a special chapter in it. Several books have already been written about this.
Whether or not Lenin subsequently suffered from his orientation, we cannot say, but in childhood this was also a difficult test for him: he grew up embittered, hated the whole world. In the gymnasium, he took out his evil on his peers, fought, beat his adversaries, for all that, of course, he was a very talented person.
NP: Where did you get such startling information from?
AK: This is also a special and interesting story. Marietta Shahinyan stands at its origins. In the 70s, this writer wrote a book about Lenin and got access to the archives. Apparently, the keepers of the archives themselves did not know what was hidden in the papers behind seven seals. When Marietta Shaginyan got acquainted with the papers, she was shocked and wrote a memorandum to Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev personally. Brezhnev introduced this information to his circle. Suslov lay under pressure for three days and demanded that Shaginyan be shot for slander. But Brezhnev acted differently: he called Shaginyan to his place and, in exchange for silence, offered her a prize for a book about Lenin, an apartment, etc. and so on.
What evidence does Alexander Kutenev provide for his version? None, there is a link to the memorandum of Marietta Shaginyan, but it was about something completely different (and this is written in chapter 2). The illegitimate child of the emperor from Maria Alexandrovna Blank was discussed in chapter 3, now we are interested in another topic - homosexuality. Kutenev believes that the whole problem of Lenin arose because of his father, it was he who seduced little Volodechka. This idea came to Kutenev's head, but in order for it to be accepted by society, arguments are needed, but there are none. Yes, and it won’t, because you need to know history, and if you understand the atmosphere of the time and know how homosexuals behaved in those days, it will be clear that this accusation of a crime against Ilya Nikolayevich is in no way acceptable. According to the Russian Criminal Code of 1832, sodomy was punished by the deprivation of all rights of property and exile to Siberia. According to article 995. “A person convicted of the unnatural vice of sodomy is subject to deprivation of all rights of state and exile to Siberia for a settlement from four to five years. Moreover, if a Christian, then he surrenders to church repentance by order of his spiritual authorities. According to article 996. “If the crime referred to in the previous article 995 was accompanied by violence, or committed against a minor or an imbecile, then the guilty person is given over to the deprivation of all rights of property and exile in hard labor in fortresses for a period of ten to twelve years.” As a former tradesman, who made his way to the generals with such difficulty, became a state councilor and a hereditary nobleman, he could sacrifice all his wealth for the sake of momentary weakness. This is unrealistic and unproven. It is clear that sooner or later such acts would be revealed, they cannot be hidden, and the result of such an investigation could lead to a catastrophe for the Ulyanov family.
3. No less popular on the Internet is the discovery of the candidate of historical sciences I.V. Sokolov. Based on the study of "white" spots and personal correspondence of the leader of the world proletariat, he came to the conclusion that Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) was a passive homosexual (but Volkogonov 666 he is active), and his partners at different times were Grigory Zinoviev and Leon Trotsky. Article by I.V. Sokolov is given below:
“I was interested in the archives of party workers of the so-called “Leninist call”. In particular, I spent a lot of time on the archives of those communist leaders who later, after the death of Lenin, were subjected to repression. I happened to turn over the private papers of many of them and publish previously unknown ones. And only on one material there was a hitch. They refused not only to publish it, but even to discuss it. So since then I have not been able to publicize the historical facts that I discovered. Probably because they are so stunning and unexpected... The editors of many publications, seeing them, lowered their eyes and muttered something incomprehensible that "the reader is not ready to know about it." I, however, believe that the reader should know about everything. Therefore, nevertheless, I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the historical materials that I have discovered.
Before presenting archival materials, let us turn to the official chronology of that time, which was published in the latest, sixth edition of “V.I. Lenin, Biography, 1981:
“On July 8, 1917, Alliluyev and Stalin escorted Lenin to the Razliv station, where Lenin settled in the barn of the worker N.A. Emelyanov. (All this was done in order to hide Lenin from the official authorities who were looking for him as a criminal). But, afraid of the surrounding dacha residents - the petty-bourgeois public (it turns out that the dacha residents are a petty-bourgeois public, which, however, did not prevent the party nomenclature from starting to “become bourgeois” immediately after October), Yemelyanov rented a hayfield 5 km away beyond Lake Razliv, where he sent Lenin and Zinoviev to boat to a prepared hut adjacent to a haystack, where there was a "bedroom for two".
Where did Zinoviev come from? Did Lenin move into a hut because of the fear of the surrounding summer residents? After all, summer residents were everywhere and wandered in search of mushrooms and near the hut. Yes, being locked in a barn was safer. After all, Emelyanov's wife and sons brought food to the hut every day. Yes, and Lenin warmed up food on a fire in a bowler hat. We read in the biography: "Lenin was extremely busy with work, he wrote articles." Yes, he wrote several articles that can take 5-7 days to write. But after all, Lenin stayed in the hut until the 6th of August. Further we read: “Lenin took walks, lay in the sun, swam in the Razliv Lake in the evenings, and fished.” This means that Lenin had a good rest for a month, and then he left for Finland. The main question is: since Lenin was resting, what was Zinoviev doing there? Why are such moments described in detail in the biography, which street Lenin walked through, which embankment or ditch he crossed; who was nearby at that moment, and the month of life with Zinoviev was carefully hushed up - I was interested.
Materials from the personal archive of Grigory Zinoviev, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, first secretary of the Leningrad Regional Party Committee: Lenin's letter to Grigory Zinoviev (July 1, 1917):
"Gregory! Circumstances have developed in such a way that I must immediately escape from Petrograd. I can’t go far, things don’t allow. Comrades offer one place, about which they say that it is quite safe. But it’s so boring to be alone, especially at a time like this ... Join me, and we will spend wonderful days together away from everything ... If you can retire with me, telephone quickly - I will give an order to prepare everything for two people there ” .
This letter was written in July 1917, when Lenin was about to leave Petrograd and settle with Zinoviev in Razliv, in what later became a famous hut. It was there that Lenin's relationship with Zinoviev developed. They spent a lot of time alone there, and, obviously, this completely turned Zinoviev's head. Because in September he writes from Petrograd to Lenin in Finland. "Dear Vova! You won't believe how much I miss you here without you, how I miss you and our caresses... You won't believe it, I haven't touched anyone since you left. You can be absolutely sure of my feeling for you and of fidelity. Believe me, neither a man, nor, especially a woman, have touched and will not touch. Only you are my close person ... Come, do not be afraid, I will arrange everything in the best way.
Probably, Lenin did not respond to this letter, and then Zinoviev, a week later, writes the following, after the first: “Dear Vova! You don't answer me, you probably forgot your Hershele... And I have prepared a wonderful corner for you and me. We can be there anytime we want. This is a wonderful apartment, where we will feel good, and no one will interfere with our love. It will be just as good as before. I remember how happy it was for me to meet you. Do you remember, back in Geneva, when we had to hide from this woman... No one will understand us, our feeling, our mutual affection... Come soon, I'm waiting for you, my flower. Your Herschel.
At the end of October, the party comrades finally met. The October Revolution happened and Lenin returned to Petrograd. Zinoviev left at that time for Moscow to supervise the completion of the coup there. From there he writes to Lenin: “Ilyich! Everything you asked me to do, I did. And what I haven’t done yet, I’ll definitely do it ... It’s very difficult and difficult here, but the thought warms me that in a few days I will see you and put you in my arms. Are you guarding our nest? Do you take others there? I am very worried here, and only the hope of your fidelity warms me. I kiss you on your Marxist ass. Your Herschel.
As I read these notes, two questions immediately arose in my mind. First - who was the woman from whom Lenin and Zinoviev were hiding in Geneva? And the second question is which of them was an active lover and who was passive. Who that woman was was soon revealed. In 1918, Zinoviev wrote more specifically about her: “Vova! Every time I am far away from you, I suffer terribly. It always seems to me that I'm sitting here, longing for you, and you are cheating on me just at that moment. You're a big prankster, I know... It's not always possible to resist, especially when separated from your loved one. But I hold on and do not allow myself anything. And you have a bad situation - you should always be close to Nadia. I understand you, I understand everything ... And how hard it is to pretend in front of others, I also understand. Now at least it has become a little easier - there is no need to hide anything from her. Not like it was then in Geneva, when she first found us. It must be understood that then in Geneva, when Zinoviev and Lenin first got together in bed, they were caught behind this by Nadezhda Krupskaya, the common-law wife of Ulyanov. And then, after, Lenin had already opened up to her, and she resigned herself to his inclinations and did not interfere with the stormy romance with Zinoviev. Then came the answer to the second question. In the next letter to Lenin from the front, Zinoviev jokingly asks: “Vova! Hasn't your ass been overgrown during our separation? Hasn't she already become during this time? .. Soon I will come, as soon as I manage my business here, and we will clean your cute ass.
So, Lenin was passive, and Zinoviev was an active lover. And this is confirmed by the following letter. It was written from near Narva in the spring of 1918, when Yudenich was defeated. The Red Army stopped at the Estonian border, and Zinoviev was about to return with victory to Petrograd. He rejoices and completely loses caution in expressions.
“Vova, I will come soon and will no longer let you out of my arms, no matter what this grimza says! The enemy is running along the entire front and, I think, will not turn up from this side again. So wait for me and hurry to wash away, I will be there soon.
However, in less than a few months, a gap is brewing in the relationship of lovers. He, as always happens in such cases, is associated with jealousy. We learn about this from a letter from Lenin himself, which he wrote to Zinoviev, who was at that time in the North Caucasus. For some reason Lenin writes to him in German. "Dear Hershele! You don't have to resent me at all. I feel that you are deliberately protracting your stay in the Caucasus, although the situation does not at all require it. You are probably offended by me. But it's not my fault. These are all your stupid suspicions. What concerns Leiba and me - it was only once and will not happen again ... I am waiting for you, and we will make peace in our wonderful nest.
And the signature at the end in Russian: "Vova is always yours."
“Ilyich,” Zinoviev’s reply follows immediately from Vladikavkaz.
“These are not stupid suspicions about you and Leiba at all. Who hasn't seen you circling around him lately? In any case, I have eyes, and I know you long enough to judge ... Do I not know how your eyes light up when you see a man with a large weapon. You yourself have always said that small-figured men have magnificent weapons ... I'm not blind and I saw perfectly that you are ready to forget our love for the sake of a romance with Leiba. Of course, he is now next to you and it is easy for him to seduce you. Or did you seduce him?..” Indeed, at that time Leiba Trotsky, the People's Commissar for the Republic, was in Moscow for a long time next to Lenin. And, presumably, here the two leaders had a mutual feeling.
Leiba Trotsky, the gallant people's commissar for defense, a fiery tribune and orator, took the place of Zinoviev in Lenin's bed. Lenin continued to justify himself to Grigory. He probably felt that his connection with Trotsky would be short-lived, and that Lev Davydovich would soon leave him, carried away by another woman. Yet Trotsky leaned more towards women than towards his comrades in the revolutionary struggle. Only, probably, he made an exception for Lenin, respected him. And so Lenin wrote to Zinoviev in the Caucasus:
“Do not be offended by me, Hershele. You're right, I really couldn't resist. Leiba is such a brutal man. He just wraps me in his caress. And I need it so much, especially in such a tensely political moment. It is very difficult for me without affection, and you left, you scoundrel. So I didn't resist. But you will forgive me this little weakness, Hershele? Come back and you will see that I am full of love for you. Your little Vova.
Probably, this little passage with "little Vova" finally calmed Zinoviev. He was convinced that their connection had not been interrupted, but only for a while was overshadowed by the connection of "Vova" with the insidious Leiba-seducer. Grigory rushed to Moscow, and since then there are no more corresponding letters in his archive. Maybe the lovers found a different way of communication, or Zinoviev later destroyed the traces of correspondence ...
Soon, however, the villainous bullet of the Socialist-Revolutionary Kaplan severely damaged Lenin's health. Since then, it has been undermined, and gradually Lenin's sexual relations with Grigory came to naught. In any case, the last note relating to this issue was a few lines written by Krupskaya's hand. She writes to Zinoviev in the middle of the twenty-second year:
“I ask you not to bother my husband anymore with your harassment and requests for a date. It's time for you to calm down. How much can I tolerate such your shamelessness! Ilyich is ill, you know that, and it is superfluous to tell you, an adult, that your pranks this time can only completely undermine Ilyich's health. I ask you not to persuade him any more to do what he has always been too willing to do. I hope you understand this letter of mine. It is dictated by concern for the health of my husband.” It is no coincidence that Zinoviev often spoke disrespectfully of Krupskaya in his letters to Lenin: "That woman who interfered with us in Geneva." Now she has taken revenge. So many years of being rejected by her own husband for her lover - it was hard to bear. Now, when Lenin fell ill and became helpless, Nadezhda Konstantinovna decided to put everything in its place. She no longer allowed her husband to meet with Zinoviev in private - only in the presence of her own or other members of the Politburo.
At the end of the thirties, after the arrest and execution of Zinoviev, these archival materials fell into the hands of the NKVD and, no doubt, were reported to Stalin. Why didn't he have them destroyed?
Probably for two reasons. First, for him all this, of course, was not a secret. And he was already well aware of Lenin's relations with Zinoviev and Trotsky. It is not accidental, therefore, Stalin's dismissive attitude towards Krupskaya is emphasized. What did he have to respect her if he knew that she was just a screen for the comforts of her husband? The second reason was probably that Stalin decided to keep these letters in case the time came to compromise Lenin posthumously. If, at some stage, Stalin suddenly decided to abandon the “Lenin legacy” and remain the only unsullied fighter of the revolution, these letters would have been very useful to him.
One way or another, the archive has survived to this day. And we may be surprised to find that Lenin was an ordinary homosexual.”
I.V. Sokolov, candidate of historical sciences.
And again the same problem - the author talks about the discovery of new previously unknown documents. This is a serious fact and requires proof, the author must provide the scientific community with their originals or copies, but at the same time indicate the exact address where the original can be found, so that everyone interested in the topic can verify the authenticity of the letters and even examine the handwriting.
Oddly enough, but this article is full of flaws. The author did not even bother to look into the reference book and clarify the dates. I think that the calculation was on a magical phrase (candidate of historical sciences), which was supposed to hypnotize the majority and make readers take the author's word for it.
Now let's turn to the topic. So let's start with dates.
1. Lenin's letter to Grigory Zinoviev (July 1, 1917) is cited: “Grigory! Circumstances have developed in such a way that I must immediately escape from Petrograd. With such content, Lenin could not write a letter even theoretically on July 1. There was no cause for concern. Only after the uprising on July 4-5 in Petrograd an article appeared in the newspapers under the heading: "Lenin, Ganetsky and Co. are spies!", The prosecutor issued a warrant for the arrest of the Bolshevik leaders led by Lenin. After July 4, a dangerous situation arose for Lenin, and from July 5 he moved to an illegal position - in three days he changed three places of residence. On July 7, the decision of the Provisional Government on the arrest and bringing to trial of Lenin and a number of other Bolsheviks was published, the Kadet newspapers demanded that Lenin appear in court. By decision of the Central Committee, Lenin was hidden in the house of N.A. Emelyanov at the Razliv station. After some time, Zinoviev arrived there, and Yemelyanov ferried them across the lake in a boat and settled them in a hut. Lenin could write a letter with similar content on July 8-9, although this was not necessary - Zinoviev, the second person in the party, had to hide from the government’s bloodhounds urgently (in the Bolshevik list for elections to the Constituent Assembly, he was second after Lenin) . Moreover, Zinoviev was the organizer and leader of the performance of the Bolsheviks and sailors from Kronstadt. And in the event of an arrest, the sentence to Zinoviev would have been unequivocal. There was no need to persuade Zinoviev. The difference in numbers is only one week (1 or 8), but it is significant, and at the same time, the letter from the 1st loses its semantic meaning altogether.
2. Further, Sokolov cites a letter that in September Zinoviev wrote from Petrograd to Lenin in Finland. The letter is very strange, especially considering that Lenin moved from place to place: from Yalkala to Helsingfors, and then to Vyborg, he could be arrested at any moment, he used all his conspirator skills to hide and stay alive, and here such phrase, as if from the supreme ruler: "Come, do not be afraid, I will arrange everything in the best way." Only at the beginning of October, V.I. Lenin illegally returned to Petrograd and settled in the apartment of M.V. Feofanova - this was his last secret apartment. The author of the letter with such content, dated it in September 1917, did not try to delve into the criticality of the situation when the question was being decided - to be a revolution or not to be, - to be Lenin alive or not to be. And in the next letter, which Zinoviev allegedly sent in pursuit in October on the eve of the revolution, everything is amazing in general - what kind of revolution is there, what kind of police, what fears, the apartment is rented, a paradise for solitude is prepared: “Come soon, I am waiting for you, my flower. Your Herschel.
3. We read further carefully this opus: “At the end of October, the comrades in the party struggle finally met. The October Revolution happened and Lenin returned to Petrograd. Zinoviev left at that time for Moscow to supervise the completion of the coup there. From there he writes to Lenin.
On October 25, 1917, under the leadership of Trotsky, the Bolsheviks took power in Petrograd. On October 27, 1917, the All-Russian Executive Committee of Railway Workers (VIKZHEL) threatened to go on strike in transport. Zinoviev, Kamenev, Nogin and Rykov called for negotiations with the committee, Lenin and Trotsky interrupted the negotiations. In response, on November 4, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Rykov, Nogin and Milyutin submitted applications for resignation from the Central Committee. Zinoviev was sent to Kyiv to establish Soviet power for disagreeing with the leader, but in December he was forgiven and returned to Petrograd. Zinoviev could not write from Moscow in November 1917.
4. "Nadezhda Krupskaya - the common-law wife of Ulyanov." Krupskaya was the officially registered and married wife of Vladimir Ilyich.
5. “It was written from near Narva in the spring of 1918, when Yudenich was defeated. Yudenich launched the first attack on Petrograd in June 1919; it was stopped at the end of July 1919. Yudenich's army broke through the front of the 7th Soviet Army and took Yamburg, Krasnoe Selo, Gatchina, Detskoye Selo; Petrograd was about 20 km away. After ten days of fierce fighting near Petrograd, Yudenich's Northwestern Army began a retreat on November 2, 1919 to the borders of Estonia in the Narva region. In February 1918, German troops were moving towards Petrograd, so the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was hastily signed, and on March 11, Lenin and his government moved to Moscow. Yudenich at that time was in Finland, which declared its independence and became a sovereign country.
6. "We learn about this from a letter from Lenin himself, which he wrote to Zinoviev, who was at that time in the North Caucasus." Zinoviev was not in the North Caucasus in 1918; Ordzhonikidze and Kirov established Soviet power there. Zinoviev, after being exiled to Kyiv in December 1917, was appointed chairman of the Petrograd Soviet. From March 1918, throughout the Civil War, he served as chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Petrograd Labor Commune, chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of Communes of the Northern Region (May 1918 - February 1919) and chairman of the Petrograd Revolutionary Defense Committee, as well as a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 7th Army . Although Lenin and the entire leadership of the country moved, and Moscow was declared the capital, Petrograd did not lose its important strategic importance for the revolution, and the responsible task of organizing defense and normalizing life in the city was entrusted to Zinoviev. The situation was even catastrophic, there was no time for business trips to the Caucasus. Zinoviev did not leave Petrograd in 1918.
7. “Indeed, at that time Leiba Trotsky, the People's Commissar for the Republic, was in Moscow for a long time next to Lenin. And, presumably, here the two leaders had a mutual feeling.
Leiba Trotsky, the gallant People's Commissar for Defense, a fiery tribune and orator, took the place of Zinoviev in Lenin's bed.
Trotsky was a tribune and orator, but he became a brave People's Commissar of Defense only in 1919, when, according to Sokolov, the relationship between the lovers ceased. Since then, it has been undermined, and gradually the sexual relations between Lenin and Grigory came to naught, ”that is, from August 30, 1918. At that time, Trotsky was not yet a brave people's commissar, he was only becoming one.
Since December 1917, Trotsky served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and negotiated with German ambassadors. Trotsky's installation of "neither peace nor war: we do not sign treaties, we stop the war, and we demobilize the army" led Germany to refuse to tolerate further delay in negotiations and went on the offensive. The collapsed tsarist army could not offer any serious resistance, and the Germans were rapidly advancing across the Baltic to the capital. Recognizing the failure of his policy, Trotsky resigned on February 22, and then, together with Lenin's government, moved to Moscow. Lenin settled in the Kremlin with Krupskaya and Trotsky with his second wife Natalia Ivanovna Sedova and two sons (officially, Trotsky was not divorced from his first wife Alexandra Sokolovskaya). Inessa Armand lived with her children on Manezhnaya Square, opposite the Kremlin. Kamenev lived in the same house, and on the same staircase with Armand - Lenin's sister, Anna. Grigory Zinoviev, real name Ovsei Gershen Aronovich Radomyslsky or Radomyshelsky (by mother - Apfelbaum) with his wives, Sarah Naumovna Ravich and Zlata Ionovna Lilina (nee Bernstein), and his son from his second marriage Stefan Radomyslsky remained in Petrograd. Zinoviev became the master of Petrograd.
On March 14, 1918, Trotsky received the post of People's Commissar for Military Affairs, on March 28 - Chairman of the Supreme Military Council, in April - People's Commissar for Naval Affairs. Since there was actually no army or navy, Trotsky was faced with the task of creating it and protecting the revolution. One of the first actions of Trotsky was the arrest, trial of the revolutionary tribunal and the execution of the commander of the naval forces of the Baltic Fleet, Rear Admiral A.M. Shchastny. Trotsky was forced to enter into hostilities already in August 1918. From that moment on, he continuously wound around the fronts of the civil war for two and a half years in his armored train. During the entire Civil War, the “train of the Pre-Revolutionary Military Council” lost only 15 people killed and wounded, made 36 raids, covering a distance of 97,629 miles. For military merits, the team was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
In those short periods of time when Trotsky was in Moscow, according to Sokolov, he managed to get into bed with the leader, a fact that is hard to imagine, given that Trotsky was not indifferent to women, he did not miss the young and beautiful. In the luxurious atmosphere of the staff car of the armored train, which Larisa Reisner described, Trotsky conducted his “interrogations” of women, which necessarily ended in sex. Some women who refused to follow his sexual fantasies were later ordered to be shot. This car was visited by Larisa Reisner, a beauty, a professor's daughter, a poetess, who later married a close associate of Trotsky, a red midshipman, Admiral of the Volga Flotilla, Fyodor Raskolnikov.
In addition to these temporary hobbies, Trotsky had constant companions: two wives and two mistresses. The first wife of Alexander Sokolovskaya, a girl "with tender eyes and an iron mind," was older than Trotsky and bore him two daughters. When Lev and Alexandra were in exile, Trotsky decided to run away, his wife refused. On this occasion, Alexandra wrote to her friend: “Dear Lucy! We broke up with Leo and, it seems, forever. I did not resist his escape from exile. I realized that for me this is the end of our relationship with him. We treat each other well, but being husband and wife is not easy for us. Imagine, every free minute I wash "handles - knives" and "bed - bed ...". We have a big age difference and everything will be much more difficult. The hours of love are fleeting, but it is difficult to come to terms with reality when he "needs", I "do not want to", but he is so young, and I am so "old"! It is difficult for me with him, very difficult! We were happy, I will be happy in the future with memories and our children, I am grateful to him for everything, he is the noblest person for us, we never quarreled with him, or rather he is with me, well, I ... you know, but I I loved him and will love him ... He still has everything ahead, I have children left, and they are beautiful. I did not make a mistake with him, but fate cruelly reminded me of the realities in our lives. That is why I did not object to his escape from exile, although our children are still small. So decreed the inexorable and strict fate of ours with Leva. In the future, Trotsky and Sokolovskaya met sporadically. Life divorced them, but they retained an ideological connection and friendship
Trotsky fled from exile in 1902 to Paris. There he met Natalia Ivanovna Sedova, who became his civil wife. Despite the fact that Trotsky was officially married to Alexandra, Natalia was considered, according to the party version, Trotsky's second wife, bore him two sons and remained with him until his death in 1940 (she was three years younger than Trotsky and survived him for 20 years). In the staff car there were meetings with his first mistress recognized by historians - with the young Claire Sheridan, an English sculptor known for her work in England. She came to Moscow in 1920 at the official invitation of the Kremlin to sculpt a bust of Lenin. The second recognized mistress is the Mexican Frida Kahlo, a wealthy woman who inherited a decent fortune from her parents. She was a nymphomaniac, cheating on her husband, the artist Diego Rivero. The "Blue House" where the Trotskys lived belonged to her. She also had a country estate, where Trotsky left in July 1937, citing the need to rest, hunt in the mountains, leaving Natalya alone. Then Frida joined him. Upon learning of this, Sedova demanded an explanation in a letter to Trotsky, but then, after Trotsky's assurances that she was his only beloved woman, she forgave him this sexual weakness.
It is hard to believe that such a macho, male, pronounced heterosexual (in 1918 Trotsky was only 39 years old), who had enormous power after the revolution, could be interested in an elderly man beyond his age (the leader was 47 years old), and besides, he was also sick .
7. Now about the style of letters. The general tone of the correspondence is sarcastic, one might even say scoffing, the alleged lovers treat their passion as a funny prank. “I kiss you on your Marxist ass”, “Has your ass grown over during our separation? Hasn't she already become during this time? .. Soon I will arrive, and we will clean your cute ass. But the one who wrote these lines never tried to understand the feelings of a homosexual who suffers because of his non-traditional orientation, constantly hiding his feelings from everyone, even close ones, and depending on a partner who is a hundred times more difficult to meet than heterosexuals. Men who have found each other, and even aged, communicate (judging by the published literature) in a different way, in a more romantic way. They write not about sex, not about “cleaning the ass”, but about their love and desire to hug and kiss their beloved. It is implausible that such experienced conspirators would openly report their inclinations, condemned by society. They should have understood that the correspondence could fall into the hands of officials, and then the authorities would have won back completely, and the scandal could have been so massive that all their friends and associates would have turned away from them. They could not even write such letters at that time.
8. In the letters published by Sokolov, Zinoviev calls Lenin either "Ilyich", or "Vova", and himself "your Hershele". It must be remembered that in 1917 Lenin was 47 years old, and Zinoviev was 34 years old. Lenin did not tolerate familiarity, from the time of the organization of the "Union of Struggle" group, he strictly demanded that he be addressed only as you and only by his first name and patronymic. Even relatives called Ulyanov Volodya, not Vova. Lenin, in turn, in his letters refers to Grigory Zinoviev, calling him Hershele, in fact, Zinoviev was called the child and youth Yevsey and Ovsei, or Gersh, Gershen, Gershon and Hirsh, even the mother did not call Hershele. And Leon Trotsky was called Leiba only by outright anti-Semites. There was no point in emphasizing Trotsky's Jewish origins to Lenin.
With these names, the falsifiers tried to lead the reader to the idea that Lenin, whose blood was a quarter Jewish, felt himself among the Jews, and that it was Jews who had homosexual relations, suggesting that homosexuality is a common phenomenon in the Jewish community (kagale). But this is a clear lie and a slander against Judaism, which since biblical times has fought hard against all sexual deviations.
All this taken together suggests that the correspondence between Lenin and Zinoviev cited by Sokolov, a candidate of historical sciences, is an outright fake, everything in the letters is contrived, and illiterate and unprofessional, counting on a sensation, on noise, on ignorance of the majority of our history. They put a label on Lenin - a homosexual, and everyone started talking, some in a whisper, some loudly, and no one wants to hear that this is nonsense. Someone likes to spread these rumors.
In reality, what was Lenin like sexually? From what we know, he was an average man in sex, but ideology was also superimposed on his relationship with women. Lenin was a revolutionary fan, and this should not be forgotten, the example of Rakhmetov was always a kind of guiding star in front of him. Chernyshevsky's book What Is To Be Done?, which was weak from an artistic point of view, Vladimir Ilyich re-read with a pencil. Chernyshevsky, oddly enough, was and remained for Lenin the most outstanding writer. As the leader of the party of a bright communist future, he believed that he must learn to manage natural instincts, and not to indulge them, but to restrain and control to such an extent that he becomes independent of them and receives satisfaction from spiritual communication with loved ones. It was his credo that influenced his relationship with his wife and Inessa. In letters to Nadezhda, he avoided words about sex, about his feelings after the night spent together. All ostentatious sexuality Lenin rejected both in the style of dress and in seductive behavior, he visited art galleries with reluctance and showed no interest in painting and sculpture, not wanting to be confronted with images of naked women.
Diseases, nervousness, disorders, insomnia - all this affected the sexual potency of Vladimir Ilyich, (depression is a widespread cause of sexual dysfunctions). The weakening of sexual abilities caused a painful reaction - a desire to stop sexual relations altogether. A conversation on this subject with Inessa was not easy, but after it he felt relieved. Having solved his problem in such a cardinal way, Lenin realized that the horror of the humiliating experiences that he had to experience as a man had ended (with Krupskaya, because of her illness, they had long been sleeping apart), that he no longer needed to be something to them. obligated, being alone with them. Now he could live quietly next to them, maintaining his respect and love for them, as for mother and sisters.
The facts speak more about the fact that in 1913 Lenin refused to have sex at all. This decision was prompted not only by Krupskaya's ill health, but also by his own. Lenin began to turn to neurologists as early as 1902. In the article “Professor-Opportunist about Lenin,” A.I. Elizarova-Ulyanova wrote about Professor K.M. Takhtarev, who provided medical assistance to Vladimir Ilyich due to a nervous shock in 1902. Krupskaya explained that “in London he reached the point, completely stopped sleeping, was terribly worried. The congress was clearly divided into two parts. It seemed to many that Plekhanov's tactlessness, Lenin's "fury" and ambition were to blame for everything. And that the disease was called "feu sacre" ("sacred fire"). For two weeks he lay in the boarding house of Borchardt. At the end of 1902, after the congress, Vladimir Ilyich's nerves got so wild that he fell ill with a severe nervous illness. Krupskaya recalled: “When Vladimir Ilyich developed a rash, I took up a medical reference book. It turned out that the nature of the rash is ringworm. Takhtarev, a doctor of either the 4th or 5th course, confirmed my assumptions, and I smeared Vladimir Ilyich with iodine, which caused him excruciating pain. Lenin had to turn to professional medical help. The diagnosis of doctors from the hospital was never given anywhere.
Headaches and spasms continued when he moved from London to Geneva in the spring of 1903, on the way to Geneva, Vladimir Ilyich tossed about, and on arrival he fell down and lay there for two weeks. Since that time, spasms of headaches have been his constant companions after overwork, nervous experiences. Spasms caused insomnia, irritability and anger. The symptoms of Lenin's disease completely coincide with the description of the disease of atherosclerosis. Extract from the chapter “Vascular diseases. Cerebral atherosclerosis” of the course of psychiatry: “Often already in the initial stage there are headaches, aggravated in a state of fatigue, mental overstrain. A characteristic symptom for cerebral atherosclerosis is sleep disturbance, which becomes superficial, there is no feeling of rest when waking up.
His wife recalled Lenin's constant nervous state. Heated disputes with associates and aggravation led more than once to nervous breakdowns. In Paris, in 1909, Krupskaya wrote: “I remember that Ilyich came home after some conversations with the otzovists, there was no face on him, his tongue even turned black. We decided that he would go to Nice for a week and rest there.” Rest allowed to restore the nervous system.
Cycling, hiking removed the unpleasant sensations, and at the first opportunity, when he lived abroad, he went to the park, out of the city, to the mountains, to rest by the river, by the sea. After moving to Petrograd, all the positive effects of these medical procedures ended, and the ever-increasing tension and endless nervous shocks rapidly shortened his life. Even before Faina Kaplan's assassination attempt, he most likely forgot about sex altogether. It was not up to him. Trotsky, just at this time, showed an increased interest in sex in connection with the increased opportunities, but he was healthy and young (38 years old), and lived another 22 years, and if he had not been killed, probably much more. He was so genetically strong and healthy, and Lenin was already at sunset.
Everyone on the Internet knows the Terrible Truth that in 1919 Lenin signed an instruction from the Cheka, in which he ordered the execution of all priests. Here is the full text of this terrible document, which was repeatedly published in facsimile:
INSTRUCTION ("Not a decree, but an instruction", bggy)
In accordance with the decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Soviet. Nar. Commissars need to do away with priests and religion as soon as possible. Priests must be arrested as counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, shot mercilessly and everywhere. And as much as possible. Churches are to be closed. Seal the premises of the temples and turn them into warehouses. Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Kalinin, Chairman of the Soviet. Nar. Komissarov Ulyanov (Lenin).
In the outgoing number - the number of the devil! "13-666 so that people understand that this is a sign of the Antichrist!" Like this: mercilessly shoot all Orthodox priests, turn all Orthodox churches into warehouses. You will not say anything - a terrible document. It makes your hair stand on end and smells of sulfur...
However, having coped with the first attack of fear, we notice that:
1. The All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars for the entire period of their activity have not issued a single document with the title "Instruction", only decrees And decrees signed by the heads of these bodies. Anyone can be convinced of this personally by looking at the collections "Decrees of the Soviet Power". Moreover, in the practice of Soviet party-state office work, there never existed any documents with the title "Instruction".
2. Kalinin's signature is doubtful. On May 1, 1919, M. I. Kalinin physically could not sign any “Instruction”, since at that time he was making a trip to the Eastern Front.
3. Serial numbers were not assigned to such documents. However, the serial number 13666/2 implies the presence of many thousands of such “instructions” in state records management. Where are they?
According to the director of RGASPI K.M. Anderson, all the documents of the Lenin Fund are declassified and available to researchers, since they do not contain state secrets. "Instruction of Lenin of May 1, 1919" is absent in RGASPI. Among Lenin's papers dated May 1, 1919, there are no anti-religious ones - these are several resolutions of the Small Council of People's Commissars signed by him, and all of them concern petty economic issues.
Missing "Instruction of Lenin of May 1, 1919" and in the State Archives of the Russian Federation, where the funds of the Council of People's Commissars and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee are stored. The Central Archive of the FSB of Russia and the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation gave a negative review about the existence of this “document” in their official letters.
4. There was no secret “decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of 1917-1919. about the need to “do away with priests and religion as soon as possible”, in pursuance of which “Lenin’s Decree of May 1, 1919” like it was released.
By the way, the historian Latyshev, who threw this fake into the masses, forgot the “small” detail - he did not indicate either the number, or the date, or the name of this “decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars.” Moreover, the dating "1917-1919" delivers unusually - even the year could not accurately indicate.
Worse, there are no "instructions of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD" with references to this "instruction", there are no documents on its implementation. It does not happen that there is a decision - and no one reports on its implementation.
Well, in general, you understand - this is bullshit. Fake. Moreover, the fake is stupid, made unprofessionally.
In the photo in the title - Lenin is looking in the Pravda newspaper for his instructions on the execution of priests. After all, the historian Latyshev cannot lie, he grew up in the USSR.
Many readers will be shocked. Especially for the older generation, who honored the name of Lenin and believed that he was the kindest person, but in fact he was cruel and shot by his orders.
In Russia, there are about 1800 monuments to Lenin and up to twenty thousand busts. More than five thousand streets bear the name of revolutionary No. 1. In many cities, sculptures of Vladimir Ilyich rise in the central squares. Although, if we knew the whole truth about the great leader, these monuments would have ended up in a landfill long ago.
Anatoly Latyshev is a well-known Leninist historian. Throughout his life he has been engaged in the biography of Ilyich. Recently, he managed to get documents from the secret fund of Lenin and the closed archives of the KGB.
Anatoly Grigoryevich, how did you manage to get into secret funds?
This happened after the August events of 1991. I was given a special pass to get acquainted with secret documents about Lenin. The authorities thought to find the cause of the coup in the past. From morning to evening I sat in the archives, and my hair stood on end. After all, I always believed in Lenin, but after the first thirty documents I read, I was simply shocked.
What exactly?
Lenin from Switzerland in 1905 urged youth in St. Petersburg to pour acid on policemen in the crowd, to pour boiling water on soldiers from the upper floors, to use nails to maim horses, to throw "hand bombs" on the streets. As head of the Soviet government, Lenin sent his orders around the country. A paper came to Nizhny Novgorod with the following content: “Introduce mass terror, shoot and take out hundreds of prostitutes who solder soldiers, former officers, etc. Not a moment's delay." And how do you like Lenin's order to Saratov: "Shoot conspirators and waverers without asking anyone and without allowing idiotic red tape"?
They say that Vladimir Ilyich did not like the Russian people at all?
Lenin's Russophobia is little studied today. All this comes from childhood. He did not have a drop of Russian blood in his family. His mother was a German with an admixture of Swedish and Jewish blood. Father - half Kalmyk, half Chuvash. Lenin was brought up in the spirit of German accuracy and discipline. His mother constantly told him “Russian Oblomovism, learn from the Germans”, “Russian fool”, “Russian idiots”. By the way, in his messages, Lenin spoke of the Russian people only in a derogatory manner. Once, the leader ordered the plenipotentiary Soviet representative in Switzerland: “Give the Russian fools a job: send clippings here, not random numbers (as these idiots have been doing until now).”
There are letters in which Lenin wrote about the extermination of the Russian people?
Among those terrible Leninist documents, there were particularly tough orders for the destruction of compatriots. For example, “burn Baku completely”, take hostages in the rear, put them in front of the advancing units of the Red Army, shoot them in the back, send red thugs to areas where the “greens” acted, “hang under the guise of“ greens ”(“ we will then on them and dump”) officials, rich people, priests, kulaks, landlords. Pay the murderers 100 thousand rubles each...”. By the way, the money for the “secretly hanged man” (the first “Lenin Prizes”) turned out to be the only bonus in the country. And Lenin periodically sent telegrams to the Caucasus with the following content: “We will cut everyone.” Remember how Trotsky and Sverdlov destroyed the Russian Cossacks? Lenin then remained on the sidelines. An official telegram from the leader to Frunze has now been found regarding the "total extermination of the Cossacks." And this famous letter from Dzerzhinsky to the leader dated December 19, 1919 about about a million Cossacks held captive? Lenin then imposed a resolution on him: "Shoot every single one."
Could Lenin so easily give orders to shoot people?
Here are some of Lenin's notes I managed to get: "I propose to appoint an investigation and shoot those responsible for rotozeystvo"; “Rakovsky demands a submarine. It is necessary to give two, appointing a responsible person, a sailor, putting it on him and saying: we will shoot if you do not deliver it soon”; “Give Melnichansky (with my signature) a telegram that it was a shame to hesitate and not shoot for failure to appear.” And here is one of Lenin's letters to Stalin: "Threat with execution that slut who, in charge of communications, does not know how to give you a good amplifier and achieve complete telephone communication with me." Lenin insisted on executions for "negligence" and "sluggishness." For example, on August 11, 1918, Lenin sent an instruction to the Bolsheviks in Penza: “to hang (by all means hang) so that the people can see” at least 100 wealthy peasants. For the execution of the execution, select “tougher people”. At the end of 1917, when Lenin headed the government, he proposed to shoot every tenth parasite. And this is during a period of mass unemployment.
Did he also have a negative attitude towards Orthodoxy?
The leader hated and smashed only the Russian Orthodox Church. So, on the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, when it was impossible to work, Lenin issued an order dated December 25, 1919: “It is stupid to put up with “Nikola”, you need to put all the checks on their feet in order to shoot those who did not come to work because of “Nikola” (t .e. missed the subbotnik when loading firewood into the wagons on the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker on December 19)”. At the same time, Lenin was very loyal to Catholicism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and even sectarians. In early 1918, he intended to ban Orthodoxy, replacing it with Catholicism.
How did he fight Orthodoxy?
For example, in a letter from Lenin to Molotov for members of the Politburo dated March 19, 1922, Vladimir Ilyich insisted on the need to use the massive famine in the country to rob Orthodox churches, while shooting as many “reactionary clergy” as possible. Few people know about Lenin's document dated May 1, 1919 No. 13666/2, addressed to Dzerzhinsky. Here is its content: “... it is necessary to do away with priests and religion as soon as possible. Priests must be arrested as counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, shot mercilessly and everywhere. And as much as possible. Churches are to be closed. The premises of the temples shall be sealed and turned into warehouses.”
Anatoly Grigorievich, is it confirmed that Lenin had mental disorders?
His behavior was more than strange. For example, Lenin often fell into depression, which could last for weeks. He could do nothing for a month, and then violent activity took possession of him. About this period, Krupskaya wrote: “Volodya fell into a rage ...” And he was also completely devoid of a sense of humor.
Was Lenin's style rude enough?
Berdyaev called him a genius of swearing. Here are a few lines from Lenin's letter to Stalin and Kamenev dated February 4, 1922: "We will always have time to take shit as experts." You can not "pull up the trash and bastards who do not want to submit reports ...". “Teach these assholes to answer seriously...”. In the margins of articles by Rosa Luxembourg, the leader made notes “idiot”, “fool”.
They say that Stalin arranged grandiose parties in the Kremlin during Lenin's lifetime?
And repeatedly. In this connection, Lenin often called and scolded him. But most often Ilyich scolded Ordzhonikidze. He wrote notes to him: “Who did you drink and walk with today? Where are your women from? I don't like your behaviour. Moreover, Trotsky complains about you all the time.” Ordzhonikidze was still that gulena! Stalin was more indifferent to women. Lenin reprimanded Iosif Vissarionovich for drinking a lot, to which Stalin replied: “I can’t live without wine without Georgians.”
By the way, did Ilyich like banquets?
Feature films often show how the leader drinks sugar-free carrot tea with a piece of black bread. But recently, documents have been discovered that testify to the leader's plentiful and luxurious feasts, about what a huge amount of black and red caviar, gourmet fish and other pickles were regularly supplied to the Kremlin nomenclature throughout the years of Lenin's reign. In the village of Zubalovo, on the orders of Ilyich, luxurious personal dachas were built in the conditions of the most severe famine in the country!
Did Lenin himself like to drink?
Before the revolution, Ilyich drank a lot. During the years of emigration, he did not sit at the table without beer. Since 1921 - quit due to illness. Since then, I have not touched alcohol.
Is it true that Vladimir Ilyich loved animals?
Hardly. Krupskaya wrote in her notes: “... the hysterical howl of a dog was heard. It was Volodya, returning home, always teasing the neighbor's dog...”
Do you think Lenin loved Krupskaya?
Lenin did not like Krupskaya, he valued her as an indispensable ally. When Vladimir Ilyich fell ill, he forbade Nadezhda Konstantinovna to come to him. She rolled on the floor and sobbed hysterically. These facts were described in the memoirs of Lenin's sisters. Many Leninists claim that Krupskaya was a virgin before Lenin. It is not true. Before her marriage to Vladimir Ilyich, she was already married.
Today, probably, there is nothing unknown about Lenin?
There is still a lot of unclassified, as Russian archivists are still hiding some data. So, in 2000, the collection “V.I. Lenin. Unknown Documents. Some of these documents produced banknotes. Prior to the release of this collection, our archives were selling falsified documents abroad. One American Sovietologist said that, having bought Lenin's works for his book from the leadership of the Russian archives, he then paid the publishers a fine of four thousand dollars, because Russian archivists removed some lines from Lenin's documents.
Lenin paid bonuses of 100 thousand rubles to the killers and called the Russians "assholes."
In Russia, there are about 1800 monuments to Lenin and up to twenty thousand busts. More than five thousand streets bear the name of revolutionary No. 1. In many cities, sculptures of Vladimir Ilyich rise in the central squares. Although, if we knew the whole truth about the great leader, these monuments would have ended up in a landfill long ago.
Anatoly Latyshev is a well-known Leninist historian. Throughout his life he has been engaged in the biography of Ilyich. Recently, he managed to get documents from the secret fund of Lenin and the closed archives of the KGB.
Anatoly Grigoryevich, how did you manage to get into secret funds?
This happened after the August events of 1991. I was given a special pass to get acquainted with secret documents about Lenin. The authorities thought to find the cause of the coup in the past. From morning to evening I sat in the archives, and my hair stood on end. After all, I always believed in Lenin, but after the first thirty documents I read, I was simply shocked.
What exactly?
Lenin from Switzerland in 1905 urged youth in St. Petersburg to pour acid on policemen in the crowd, to pour boiling water on soldiers from the upper floors, to use nails to maim horses, to throw "hand bombs" on the streets. As head of the Soviet government, Lenin sent his orders around the country. A paper came to Nizhny Novgorod with the following content: "Introduce mass terror, shoot and take out hundreds of prostitutes who solder soldiers, former officers ... Not a minute of delay." And how do you like Lenin's order to Saratov: "Shoot conspirators and waverers, without asking anyone and without allowing idiotic red tape"?
They say that Vladimir Ilyich did not like the Russian people at all?
Lenin's Russophobia is little studied today. All this comes from childhood. He did not have a drop of Russian blood in his family. His mother was a German with an admixture of Swedish and Jewish blood. Father - half Kalmyk, half Chuvash. Lenin was brought up in the spirit of German accuracy and discipline. His mother constantly told him “Russian Oblomovism, learn from the Germans”, “Russian fool”, “Russian idiots”. By the way, in his messages, Lenin spoke of the Russian people only in a derogatory manner. Once, the leader ordered the plenipotentiary Soviet representative in Switzerland: “Give the Russian fools a job: send clippings here, not random numbers (as these idiots have done until now).”
There are letters in which Lenin wrote about the extermination of the Russian people?
Among those terrible Leninist documents, there were particularly tough orders for the destruction of compatriots. For example, “burn Baku completely, take hostages in the rear, put them in front of the advancing units of the Red Army, shoot them in the back, send red thugs to areas where the “greens” acted, hang them under the guise of “greens” (we will blame them later) officials, rich people, priests, kulaks, landlords. Pay the killers 100 thousand rubles…”. By the way, the money for the “secretly hanged man” (the first “Lenin Prizes”) turned out to be the only bonus in the country. And Lenin periodically sent telegrams to the Caucasus with the following content: “We will cut everyone.” Remember how Trotsky and Sverdlov destroyed the Russian Cossacks? Lenin then remained on the sidelines. An official telegram from the leader to Frunze has now been found regarding the "total extermination of the Cossacks." And this famous letter from Dzerzhinsky to the leader dated December 19, 1919 about about a million Cossacks held captive? Lenin then imposed a resolution on him: "Shoot every single one."
Could Lenin so easily give orders to shoot people?
Here are some of Lenin's notes I managed to get: "I propose to appoint an investigation and shoot those responsible for rotozeystvo"; “Rakovsky demands a submarine. It is necessary to give two, appointing a responsible person, a sailor, laying on him and saying: we will shoot if you do not deliver soon ”; “Give Melnichansky (with my signature) a telegram that it was a shame to hesitate and not shoot for failure to appear.” And here is one of Lenin's letters to Stalin: "Threate to death that slut who, in charge of communications, does not know how to give you a good amplifier and achieve complete telephone communication with me." Lenin insisted on executions for "negligence" and "sluggishness." For example, on August 11, 1918, Lenin sent an instruction to the Bolsheviks in Penza: “to hang (by all means hang) so that the people can see” at least 100 wealthy peasants. For the execution of the execution, select "tougher people." At the end of 1917, when Lenin headed the government, he proposed to shoot every tenth parasite. And this is during a period of mass unemployment!
Did he also have a negative attitude towards Orthodoxy?
The leader hated and smashed only the Russian Orthodox Church. So, on the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, when it was impossible to work, Lenin issued an order dated December 25, 1919: “To put up with“ Nikola ”is stupid, you need to put all the checks on your feet in order to shoot those who did not come to work because of“ Nikola ”(t .e. missed the subbotnik when loading firewood into the wagons on the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker on December 19)”. At the same time, Lenin was very loyal to Catholicism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and even sectarians. In early 1918, he intended to ban Orthodoxy, replacing it with Catholicism.
How did he fight Orthodoxy?
For example, in Lenin's letter to Molotov for members of the Politburo dated March 19, 1922, Vladimir Ilyich insisted on the need to use the massive famine in the country to rob Orthodox churches, while shooting as many "reactionary clergy" as possible. Few people know about Lenin's document dated May 1, 1919 No. 13666/2, addressed to Dzerzhinsky. Here is its content: “... it is necessary to do away with priests and religion as soon as possible. Priests must be arrested as counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, shot mercilessly and everywhere. And as much as possible. Churches are to be closed. The premises of the temples shall be sealed and turned into warehouses.”
Anatoly Grigorievich, is it confirmed that Lenin had mental disorders?
His behavior was more than strange. For example, Lenin often fell into depression, which could last for weeks. He could do nothing for a month, and then violent activity took possession of him. About this period, Krupskaya wrote: "Volodya fell into a rage ...". And he was completely devoid of a sense of humor.
Was Lenin's style rude enough?
Berdyaev called him a genius of swearing. Here are a few lines from Lenin's letter to Stalin and Kamenev dated February 4, 1922: "We will always have time to take shit as experts." You can not "pull up the trash and bastards who do not want to submit reports ...". "Teach these assholes to answer seriously ...". In the margins of Rosa Luxemburg's articles, the leader made notes "idiot", "fool".
They say that Stalin arranged grandiose parties in the Kremlin during Lenin's lifetime?
And repeatedly. In this connection, Lenin often called and scolded him. But most often Ilyich scolded Ordzhonikidze. He wrote notes to him: “Who did you drink and walk with today? Where are your women from? I don't like your behaviour. Moreover, Trotsky complains about you all the time. Ordzhonikidze was still that gulena! Stalin was more indifferent to women. Lenin reprimanded Iosif Vissarionovich for drinking a lot, to which Stalin replied: “I can’t live without wine without Georgians.”
By the way, did Ilyich like banquets?
Feature films often show how the leader drinks sugar-free carrot tea with a piece of black bread. But recently, documents have been discovered that testify to the leader's plentiful and luxurious feasts, about what a huge amount of black and red caviar, gourmet fish and other pickles were regularly supplied to the Kremlin nomenclature throughout the years of Lenin's reign. In the village of Zubalovo, on the orders of Ilyich, luxurious personal dachas were built in the conditions of the most severe famine in the country!
Did Lenin himself like to drink?
Before the revolution, Ilyich drank a lot. During the years of emigration, he did not sit at the table without beer. Since 1921 - quit due to illness. Since then, I have not touched alcohol.
Is it true that Vladimir Ilyich loved animals?
Hardly. Krupskaya wrote in her notes: “... the hysterical howl of a dog was heard. This Volodya, returning home, always teased the neighbor's dog ... ".
Do you think Lenin loved Krupskaya?
Lenin did not like Krupskaya, he valued her as an indispensable ally. When Vladimir Ilyich fell ill, he forbade Nadezhda Konstantinovna to come to him. She rolled on the floor and sobbed hysterically. These facts were described in the memoirs of Lenin's sisters. Many Leninists claim that Krupskaya was a virgin before Lenin. It is not true. Before her marriage to Vladimir Ilyich, she was already married.
Today, probably, there is nothing unknown about Lenin?
There is still a lot of unclassified, as Russian archivists are still hiding some data. So, in 2000, the collection “V.I. Lenin. Unknown Documents. Some of these documents produced banknotes. Prior to the release of this collection, our archives were selling falsified documents abroad. One American Sovietologist said that, having bought Lenin's works for his book from the leadership of the Russian archives, he then paid the publishers a fine of four thousand dollars, because Russian archivists removed some lines from Lenin's documents.
