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I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky		Tuesday Jan 06, 2026
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About Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Улья́нов, IPA: [vlʌˈdʲimʲɪr ɪˈlʲitɕ uˈlʲanəf]), better known by the alias Lenin (help·info) (Ленин) (April 22, 1870 - January 21, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. He was the creator of Leninism, an extension of Marxist theory.

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I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

When we say 'the state,' the state it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it come it moves irresistibly.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

It is true that liberty is precious so precious that it must be rationed.

The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism.... It is capitalism dying, not dead.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.

In the end, one or the other will triumph a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country.

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour.

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