43 Quotes About Lenin

  • Author Lars T. Lih
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    Armand’s role in Lenin’s life should not be reduced to her alleged stint as ‘Lenin’s mistress’.

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  • Author Jacques Pauw
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    If there was ever a capitalist finger up Lenin's waxy ass, it was the opening of the ultra-luxurious GUM store on the eastern border of the square, just a stone's throw from the mausoleum.

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  • Author Umberto Eco
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    There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and his Jenny had made love merrily. You can feel it in the easy pace of his prose and in his humor. On the other hand, I remember remarking one day in the corridors of the university that if you screwed Krupskaya all the time, you'd end up writing a lousy book like Materialism and Empiriocriticism.

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  • Author Brian Cox
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    I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.

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  • Author Octavian Paler
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    The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

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