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...Lenin, arriving at the Finland station in the famous "sealed train" in the middle of the night while a band blares the Marseillaise and a searchlight knifes the sky and startles the crowd. "Lenin came, or rather ran, into the waiting room. He wore a round cap, his face looked frozen, and there was a magnificent bouquet in his hands." Lenin toys with his flowers, stares at the ceiling, and gives a short pep talk, ending with "Long live the worldwide Socialist revolution...
...Grey Blur. As Author Sukhanov describes the summer of 1917, it often seems that the de facto government of Russia was the crowd in the streets ("Everyone was demonstrating who wasn't too lazy!"). The crowd was fickle. When Lenin was tagged as a paid German agent by the opposition press, he took to the underground. Stalin, at the time, left only "the impression of a grey blur" on Sukhanov, "looming up now and then dimly and not leaving any trace...
...workers in animal husbandry fulfilling their norms. His speech was short and sweet. Even when he came to foreign policy, he denounced West German rearmament almost more in sorrow than in anger. It "hampers," he said, "the lessening of international tension." As for Russia, he proclaimed, its policy is Lenin's: "The possibility of a peaceful coexistence and economic competition of states regardless of social and state systems...
Appearing as a surprise lecturer in Richard Pipes' History 155 course, the man some may remember as the Socialist premier of Russia whom Lenin overthrew in October 1917, talked on Russia's pre-1917 parliament...
...Lenin had lived, the Communist regime might have ended many years ago," he added, "for he was a much more flexible man than Stalin, who got his way through his stubbornness." "I only met Lenin once, in 1917," Kerensky said...