A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

V. I. LENIN
(22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924)

Several quarters believe that the working-class leader and revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov "Lenin" made the world a better place. The October 1917 revolution in Petrograd changed history, with the transition from capitalism to socialism...

The uprising underlined the idea that ordinary workers had everything needed for a fair world; it woke up Asia; it shook those holding the chains of colonial rule in Africa; it loosened European hold on Latin America; and it saw African-American soldiers leaving the battlefields of WW1...

Lenin’s crystal clear views on imperialism and capitalism aided him spot the weakest link of capitalist exploitation. That being said, it isn't that imperialism is over; is pretty much still on, perhaps in another form, with various neo-coercive measures against nations coming in the way of  hegemonic interests...

A revered leader of the oppressed, Lenin’s influence in his home nation has faded away over time since his death, as evidenced by the socio-economic and political changes the erstwhile USSR and today’s Russia have undergone...

The present dispensation qualmless in undermining Lenin’s legacy, is reportedly not too enthusiastic about today's centenary event of an icon their nation has kept embalmed, as it views the individual instrumental in sowing seeds of discontent which finally emerged over the past decade, and which continues as a conflict till date...

Supporters and detractors are a given. Respected by many for the revolution and modernization of USSR, others remain critical of his authoritarian methods and the repressive nature of successive Soviet governing class...

One may love or hate Lenin. But then he released a monarchy for the commoners, from an autocracy to a republic, may be not in the best manner possible; he too was a human, liable to err. But he did what he could, perhaps in good faith...

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