#lenin

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.) ↗

— Robert Walser

#food #great-war #leninism #food

There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That's a lot to have done in But where he did one in That old bastard Stalin did ten in. ↗

— Robert Conquest

#joseph-stalin #limericks #mass-murder #vladimir-lenin #men

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism." (Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini) ↗

— Winston Churchill

#fascism #history #italy #lenin #politics

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. ↗

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#marx #revolution #revolution

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. ↗

— Brian Cox

#both #british #i #i can #i think

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#based #being #between #china #chinese

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#economy #ideology #killing #lenin #marxist

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#did #going #got #greatest #had

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#forget #here #kids #lenin #mothers

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#how #lenin #marx #reads #someone