Word: leninism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite my arrest, and to the horror of my parents, I returned to New York something of a convert. I was only joking when I flashed my Communist Party card -- it was actually a Lenin Library card -- but Communism in theory was appealing: everybody works for the greater good, no one is allowed to go hungry or homeless or jobless, no one gets rich at another's expense. Contrast that with, in today's terms, millions of homeless in America and television producer Aaron Spelling's building a $50 million house for himself in Los Angeles...
...anyone deviated the least little bit from him, like the Mensheviks, for example, he turned on them, he reviled them, he used every term of imprecation against them. He hated them. Even without using the word "evil" in a broad, metaphysical sense, you can still apply this word to Lenin in its everyday meaning...
...English philosopher Bertrand Russell, who was a self-professed atheist, met Lenin and said he thought Lenin was the most evil man he had ever met. Do you think Lenin was evil...
...never met Lenin, but I can confirm this. He was uncommonly evil...
...first installment of a vast epic cycle about the events that led to the Bolshevik Revolution. He also breaks a long silence to give his first major interview since 1979. Solzhenitsyn speaks candidly about his work, his harrowing past, his life in the West and the evil nature of Lenin...