‘Won’t Forgive’: Communists Lash Out At Putin For Comparing Lenin’s Policies To ‘Bomb Under Russia’

[Purveyor]

Russia’s Communist party has warned President Vladimir Putin that they “won’t forgive” him for comments he made concerning Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin’s concept of the Soviet state, comparing it to an “atomic bomb planted under Russia.”

In response to a speech by one of the academics at a meeting of the Presidential Council on Science on Thursday, who cited a line from a poem about Lenin, Putin said the revolutionary leader and his associates had “planted an atomic bomb under the structure called Russia, and it then exploded.”

Although it was not the first time Putin has spoken negatively of Lenin’s role in Russian history, some took it as his harshest opinion to date, which was incidentally expressed on the very day of the anniversary of Lenin’s death.

Sergey Obukhov, an MP for the Communist Party of Russia, noted “it’s not his first anti-communist sentiment, and history will not forgive him that.”

Having caused a stir in the Russian media, the president later clarified his comment while speaking to activists of All-Russia People’s Front movement on Monday, saying that he specifically disapproved of the way Lenin had structured the new Soviet state.

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https://www.rt.com/politics/330126-putin-lenin-atomic-bomb/

[DetlefK]

1. How dare you bring up the wars and famines Lenin caused? How dare you?

[ProfessorGAC]

3. You Nailed It

While Stalin took the concept to a horrific level, Lenin was the one who decided terror and intimidation was needed to expand and preserve the revolution.

Not exactly a shining example of statesmanship.

[redgreenandblue]

2. As far as I understand, Putin's camp see themselves more as carrying on the tradition of the Czars.

Nostalgia for the "old Russia" and all that. They were never communists, they are "conservatives".