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...Vladimir Ilyich Lenin were one-tenth as modest as the Russian history books make him out to be, he would be mortified. Last week, as the April 22 centennial of Lenin's birth approached, a flood of books, articles, paintings, plays, movies, symphonies, posters, busts, lapel buttons, and even special candy bars washed over the Soviet Union and some 100 other countries as well. The atheistic Soviet state is coming very close to conferring secular sainthood on its founder...
...buildup has reached an intensity that boggles Western minds as well as many Russian ones. More than 800 editions of Lenin's works have been published for the centenary. Throughout the Soviet Union, bookshops are crammed with such works as Lenin and Modern Statistics (in three volumes) and Lenin and Philosophical Questions of Relative Physics. For foreign consumption the 55-volume "Complete Works" has been translated into English, French and Finnish. Dmitry Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian have composed new works to Lenin's memory, and six Soviet movie companies have made no fewer than 14 feature films about...
...Baltimore. To hear Tass tell it, the whole world is caught up in a frenzy of anticipation. Interest in Lenin is growing in American cities, says Tass, including Baltimore, where his books are "undoubtedly most popular with youth." Calcutta and Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, have renamed streets for him. According to Tass, Indian students have asked their Soviet friends to send them seedlings from Ulyanovsk because "they want to grow trees from the motherland of Lenin." He was the subject of an "international" meeting in Bamako, Mali, and of a quiz show on Radio Sierra Leone. A program called Lenin...
...Though Lenin's birthday may not be quite the international event that the Soviet press makes it out to be, the deification clearly fills a deep domestic political-and psychological-need. "Please remember, for us Lenin is an icon," declared a ranking Soviet official. The icon, moreover, serves an up-to-the-minute function. In a year scarred by serious economic shortcomings and rumors of rifts at the top, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin have invoked Lenin's ideas to enhance their collective leadership and his image to associate themselves with the heroic struggles...
...adulatory overkill has grated on the nerves of many Russians. The Soviet youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, under the headline WHAT FOR?, has attacked the "pomposity and bombast" surrounding some of the celebrations. Wry jokes circulate in Moscow, not about Lenin the man-whom Russians indeed revere-but about Lenin the oversold commodity. One tells of a contest for the best statue honoring the writer Pushkin. First prize is awarded for a statue of Lenin, second for a statue of Lenin reading Pushkin, and third for one of Pushkin reading Lenin. (Pushkin, as it happens, died 33 years before Lenin...