Reply #18: Attempting to take out Lenin DID make a difference... [View All]

[MattSh]

As it happens, the attempt to kill Lenin has made him much more popular than he was. One hears a great many people, who are far from having any sympathy with the Bolsheviks, saying that it would be an absolute disaster if Lenin had succumbed to his wounds, as it was first thought he would. And they are quite right, for, in the midst of all this chaos and confusion, he is the backbone of the new body politic, the main support on which everything rests.<71>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin (It's about half way down).