Word: lenin
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...exhibition focus on the developing Soviet economy, which looks so promising from the propaganda (and at the time seemed so fruitful from the input-intensive growth experienced by the Soviets early on), that we can understand how the revolution appealed to so many intellectuals who participated in Lenin's coup. The government's efforts to bring electricity to the whole of its parts certainly proved an inspiring theme for much of the Soviet propaganda. Other posters' promise of education--as well as the illustration of the illiterate as one blindly walking off of a cliff--show the importance of learning...
...historical record would simply destroy the beautiful creation of the Soviet artists, not simply in their socialistic slogans but in their carefully cut woodblock prints of Lenin giving voice to the masses through radio, and of Russian people frolicking in the bounty of "freedom" and plenty. So let us leave it at that, the wonderfully appetitive imagery to be gained from a visit to the museum. Go enjoy the workers' paradise...
Klauber said that at the age of 10 he had no formal schooling. He credited Lenin with bringing schools, work, and cars to his village. Klauber said Lenin's accomplishments outweighed his faults...
...There are some people who believe in Lenin [and their minds can't be changed]," Pipes said in response to Klauber's statements...
Other audience members included students from Pipes' freshman seminar one year ago, a man whose grandmother knew Lenin and an Israeli woman who grew up on a kibutz indoctrinated with socialist philosophy...