Events Tagged: "Lenin"

Lenin states: Marxism is 'absolutely atheistic and positively hostile to all religion... We must combat religion—that is the ABC of all materialism.'

Lenin writes to Maxim Gorky: 'All worship of a divinity is a necrophilia... There can be nothing more abominable than religion'

Lenin declares: 'To reject war in principle is un-Marxist... Who objectively stands to gain from the slogan Peace? In any case, not the revolutionary proletariat.'

Russian Revolution: Lenin's office featured kitsch ape statue on books including Origin of Species contemplating human skull

Germany facilitates Lenin's return to Russia, funding Bolshevik Revolution to remove Russia from war

Lenin orders execution of Christmas celebrants: 'those who do not show up for work because of Nikola are shot'

Lenin tells Russian Young Communist League: 'We do not believe in God... Our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the proletariat's class struggle.'