Dancing On Ilyich’s Grave

Felix Gorelik

On the 80th Anniversary of the death of V.I. Lenin, Russian television was showing only one theme. Having received a directive from the Kremlin, on all of the TV channels, there was let loose Judases demanding that the body of Lenin be taken out of the Mausoleum and reburied. This attack was headed by the well known TV personality Pozner, and one of the top pall bearers of the demise of the Soviet Union, Yakovlev, plus Zakharov, heading the theatre named after "Lenin’s Komsomol" which was renamed in order to disguise the previous name, and now is called "Lenkom", so that the name Lenin and Komsomol will not be spoken; the writer Yerofeev, plus another TV personality Pushkov, appealing to the TV audiences to support the reburial of the body of Lenin.

Zhirinovsky in Moscow undertook upon himself the role of heading the campaign to rebury Lenin, away from the Mausoleum and Red Square in Moscow. Their opening slogan and vile accusations were leveled at. Lenin, that he was "the biggest criminal in history, responsible for the death of 100 million people." This was followed by the lie that was started by Imperialists and the White Guards, the Black Hundreds reactionary cabal and taken from the White Guard newspapers published in Europe, about the "Tons and wagons full of German Gold" supposedly given to Lenin to support the revolution, plus numerous other vile lies and vicious attacks against the policies of V.I. Lenin.

Looking at this propaganda, listening to these former CPSU CC members, using the CPSU as a gift horse to travel across other countries working against the USSR, now barking like wild dogs – it was hard for a normal person to look at this and hear them. I wanted to ask: do you not understand this fact yourselves, that you cannot compare yourself to Lenin? You are just stupid pygmies, cockroaches, compared to the Titan Lenin, a genius, who will live in people’s minds forever!

These present pygmies cannot discuss or hold in their minds the meaning of the teachings of Lenin, their brains are clogged with hate against what Lenin and Stalin stood and fought for. Why? Because Lenin stood for the working class and peasants! While these pygmies with all their hearts want to defend and bring again to power the exploiters, from which they receive their thirty pieces of silver!

A well known Russian stage artist Nazarov, who was asked to appear on this vile talk show, said what the hosts never expected him to say: " I do not like private ownership of the means of production! This is nothing but vile exploitation"! How true and to the point!

Lenin headed the world’s first Socialist Revolution, against private ownership and exploitation. He fought against illiteracy, for schooling for all the people, and thanks to these policies, the USSR gave birth to many world-renowned Generals, Marshals, Scientists, Doctors, Directors, Engineers, Artists and brought up the Soviet culture to the highest point of achievement.

Now, being successful in the demise of the Soviet Union by counter-revolution, having taken over the leadership of former CPSU- Gorbachev, Yakovlev, Yeltsin and others, with the support of the former "intelligencia" like the likes of Zakharov, Liubimova etc. left the working class and social ownership of the means of production, and are now celebrating.

They hate Lenin so much that they cannot stand him being buried on Red Square in the Lenin Mausoleum! You can tell by the writings of these anti-Leninists, anti-Communists, they are the followers of those who organized the intervention against Russia after 1917. They also follow their former leader, Winston Churchill, who said, "Let’s strangle the Bolshevik baby in its cradle!" They also are the followers of Hitler and Goebbels – who also hated Lenin and Stalin and Communists. Wanting to destroy Leningrad during World War II, Hitler called it Petersburg, not Leningrad. It is not a coincidence that the former CPSU CC member and Mayor of Leningrad, Sobchak, pushed through the elimination of Leningrad and named it St. Petersburg as did Hitler before, just to make certain that Lenin’s name is not spoken there.

No wonder that they now call themselves "democrats", "liberals", "reformers" – no matter how they call themselves now, they are the followers of Churchill, Hitler, White Guards, Imperialism – united in their hate of V.I. Lenin, October Revolution, USSR and Socialism.

They are in fact "demofascists", agents of Imperialism and of the multinational corporations. The millions of deaths that they say was the responsibility of Lenin – these are the deaths perpetrated by the vicious hate of Capitalism against the new Soviet State - who since 1917 did everything to dismember the USSR in order to again get the opportunity to own and exploit the riches of the sixth part of the world’s land mass.

Looking at these fat, smug faces on the TV- they look like death souls, political corpses, who arose from the graves of their former masters.

No Vladimir Ilyich! You will not be killed or moved by those who now want to touch your body - they will not be able to get away from their deserved retribution!

Just a few lines from a well known poem to show you my feelings:

Lenin, Lenin, Lenin! Our ideal, our Banner!
In our fight, in our struggle, you were and are with us!
We hold your likeness in our hearts!

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