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| Sep-09-07 | | brankat: <norami> A Revolutionary idea! :-) Unfortunately ( or fortunately? ), not quite applicable to, neither Socialism, nor Chess. The idea is (or should be) to significantly narrow/marginalize the gap. In Chess, through fair access to resources, training, contests...it allows more and more players to participate/compete on (if not equal), at least on a reasonably acceptable footing, In Societies, it makes things more reasonably/acceptably equitable for more and more people. In both cases differences will (and should) remain. Based on individual efforts, talents, contributions, resourcefulness etc. But these will not be too huge, let alone of astronomical proportions. So that at one end there is a number of disproportionately fat swines, and at the other an in-comparably larger number of living skeletons, not only in purely physical sense, but also in educational, cultural and spiritual one. |
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| Sep-09-07 | | norami: <brankat> I recently read in Scientific American that the number of people in the world who are overweight (fat swines) is up to 20% and the number who are underweight (living skeletons) is down to 12%. Data for the educational, cultural and spiritual sense is harder to come by. |
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| Apr-22-08 | | nimh: <Ivanov applied to the Communist Party. The party committee conducts an interview.
"Comrade Ivanov, do you smoke?"
"Yes, I do a little."
"Do you know that comrade Lenin did not smoke and advised other communists not to smoke?"
"If comrade Lenin said so, I shall cease smoking."
"Do you drink?"
"Yes, a little."
"Comrade Lenin strongly condemned drunkenness."
"Then I shall cease drinking."
"Comrade Ivanov, what about women?"
"A little...."
"Do you know that comrade Lenin strongly condemned amoral behavior?"
"If comrade Lenin condemned, I shall not love them any longer."
"Comrade Ivanov, will you be ready to sacrifice your life for the Party?"
"Of course. Who needs such life?">
<In the Red Square in Moscow, a line is snaking toward the Lenin's tomb. A change of guard is watched by the onlookers. A kid asks, "Daddy, why do they always keep guard at the tomb?"
"Didn't you hear what they say all the time? Lenin lived, Lenin is alive, Lenin will live forever. What if , God forbid, he is indeed alive, and decides to walk out of the tomb?"> <Toward the hundredth anniversary of Lenin's birth, many Soviet plants and factories manufactured new products designed to honor the Great Leader Lenin. Among these products were:
Perfume "Scent of Lenin."
Soap "All over Lenin's places."
Cosmetic powder "Lenin's ashes."
Triple bed for newlyweds "Lenin is always with us."
Laxative "Lenin's Testament."
Candies "Lenin in chocolate."
Ladies' bra "Lenin's Hills."
Wine "Lenin in Razliv."
Sausage "Lenin's cut."
Clock with a cuckoo; once every hour, a gate opens, Lenin appears and says, "Coo-coo!"
A fountain "Lenin's jet."
A doll; it is a small figure of Lenin. If one turns a key, it starts moving, first one step back, then two steps forward, pronouncing the words, "What to do? What to do?"
A tourist guidebook, "Over Lenin's places in Siberia," designed for those citizens who like telling anecdotes about Lenin.> |
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| Sep-27-08 | | timhortons: I am reading now roberts payne book life and death of lenin, im on my first 100 page. He play a lot of chess with his brother alexander, and he could play with out lookin at the board. |
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| Jan-03-09 | | timhortons: lenin in his death bed tried toward-off stalin but its too late, stalin already consolidated his power. At one point he tried to harass krupskaya blaming her of feeding lennin of political news during the time his too ill of his stroke and last of his days.Lenin dictated ideas to his secretaries putting off stalin but its not just not enough to stop stalin assuming more power. He know the party is split off between stalin and trotsky and stalin just emerge a stronger political animal. robert payne book is an interesting one
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| Jan-07-09 | | timhortons: had lenin live a little longer , he would have destroyed stalin politically. but Stalin is just a perfect portrait of lenin.There you see a man who see himself in a mirror and want to break the mirror when an evil of his face confront him. |
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| Jan-11-09 | | nitram: <brankat:A Revolutionary idea! :-) Unfortunately ( or fortunately? ), not quite applicable to, neither Socialism, nor Chess.
The idea is (or should be) to significantly narrow/marginalize the gap. In Chess, through fair access to resources, training, contests...it allows more and more players to participate/compete on (if not equal), at least on a reasonably acceptable footing, In Societies, it makes things more reasonably/acceptably equitable for more and more people. In both cases differences will (and should) remain. Based on individual efforts, talents, contributions, resourcefulness etc. But these will not be too huge, let alone of astronomical proportions. So that at one end there is a number of disproportionately fat swines, and at the other an in-comparably larger number of living skeletons, not only in purely physical sense, but also in educational, cultural and spiritual one.>
individual efforts, talents and contributions sound very much like capitalism to me. Reading your other posts, I'm sure this wasn't your intent. |
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| Mar-22-09 | | timhortons: By the end of January 1918, after about 12 weeks in authority,Lenin had established his dictatorship so solidly that nothing short of external intervention could have destroyed his power.Of course by this time the germans were in a position to snuff him out without difficulty.They were rapidly advancing in all fronts,meeting little opposition.But on March 3 Lenin signed their dictated peace terms, having argued down to trotsky and other collegues, who wanted to pursue a 'no war no peace' line until the germans workers revolution broke out.Thereafter,for the rest of the war, the germans had an interest in keeping lenin going.As their foriegn minister,Admiral Paul von Hintze, put in july 1918:'The Bolsheviks are the best weapon for keeping Russia in a state of chaos, thus allowing Germany to tear as many provinces from the former Russian Empire as she wishes and to rule the rest through economic control. For equal and opposite reasons the allies were anxious to oust Lenin and get Russia back to war.But Linen was clearly right to settle with the Germans, whos threat to him was near and immediate, rather than the aliies, who were distant and divided in there aims. Paul johnson
History of modern world |
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| May-02-09 | | Dredge Rivers: This is my 666th post. It seemed appropriate to put it here! |
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| May-02-09 | | MaxxLange: <Dredge Rivers> yes, it was. Lenin was a very scary person |
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| May-05-09 | | Dredge Rivers: Actually, this is post # 666. One of my previous ones has mysteriously dissapeared! |
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| Sep-07-09 | | timhortons: linen must have won that game against hitler.
lenin come from a chess playing family.
i read two autobiography about hitler and it didnt mention he played chess. |
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| Dec-18-09 | | ReDDaWN: Most people can not accept the fact that, apart from representing certain ideologies people reflect their inner vision as well. Lenin was one of them. @Nimh
You are the shining example of complexity of Lenin.For America, it took 1 century to get over this fact.It seems some individuals still suffer from this complexity. I suggest you to get over it.
He was not feeding the idea of dictatorship unless it serves the idea of dictatorship of proletariat(major workers class). Not even under his own name. As long as class difference exists in this world there will be a conflict. It can evolve into humanism or socialism nevertheless Lenin will never die until that day comes.. |
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| Sep-19-11 | | whiteshark: It this dude the real <Comrade Vlad Linen <>>? |
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| Sep-19-11 | | chenturini: True shoot!! |
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| Feb-08-13 | | Marmot PFL: <lenin in his death bed tried toward-off stalin but its too late, stalin already consolidated his power. At one point he tried to harass krupskaya blaming her of feeding lennin of political news during the time his too ill of his stroke and last of his days.Lenin dictated ideas to his secretaries putting off stalin but its not just not enough to stop stalin assuming more power.> Lenin was never the same after the 1918 assassination attempt that wounded him badly. Interesting photos - the relief of Leningrad (1943), what happened to Stalin? http://www.armchairgeneral.com/foru... |
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| Jun-05-14 | | epistle: 1924: Regla
Lenin
The mayor of the Cuban community of Regla calls everybody together. From the neighboring city of Havana has come news of the death of Lenin in the Soviet Union. The mayor issues a proclamation of mourning. The proclamations says that "the aforementioned Lenin won well-deserved sympathy among the proletarian and intellectual elements of this municipal district. Accordingly, at 5:00 p.m. Sunday next its residents will observe two minutes of silence and meditation, during which persons and vehicles will maintain absolute stillness." At precisely five o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the mayor of Regla climbs up Fortin hill. Despite a heavy downpour, over a thousand people accompany him to observe the two minutes of silence and meditation. Afterward, the mayor plants an olive tree on top of the hill in homage to the man who was always planting the red flag over there, in the middle of the snow. Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire |
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| Apr-22-15 | | zanzibar: Lenin's portrait above is, if I might proffer an opinion, so widely dispersed as to be almost boring. OK, it is boring... Why is it that the probing, penetrating, intellectual side of Vlad is always presented, rather than the doting father figure he is? I would suggest that a more suitable image can be found in the old Soviet <64 - n16 1970 (0094) p2>, which can be found here: https://zanchess.wordpress.com/2015... |
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| Apr-23-15 | | zanzibar: From a tour of V.I. Lenin's House Museum:
<But we return to the time, when the family lived in this house. The favourite place of their evening gathering was the dinning room - spacious and light. As the contemporaries told, the Ulyanov family had three favourite hobbies - music, literature and chess. It was here, in this room, where the chess, which played both Alexander and Vladimir Ilyich, were represented. Ilya Nikolaevich taught his children to play chess when they were seven years old, and at the age of 15 they could beat their mentor at chess. But the most talented chess player was Alexander, he could play without looking at the board, from memory. And the contemporaries affirmed that only game of chess could distract Vladimir Ulyanov from political talks. And vice versa only political themes could distract him from chess.> At about 12:30 in the video tour (now available in English!): http://en.ulkul.ru/museum/27/ |
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| Apr-23-15 | | Bruce Graham: ‘C..ts,’ ‘bastards’ ‘filth,’ ‘prostitutes,’ ‘useful idiots,’ ‘cretins’ and ‘silly old maids,’ were just some of the insults Lenin heaped upon his enemies. Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin, (London: Phoenix, 2008), 147 |
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| Apr-23-15 | | zanzibar: But he seemed like such a nice old man in the photograph! |
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| Mar-05-22 | | Messiah: commie pig |
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| Jul-06-22 | | Chesgambit: He stopped playing chess later. He want to focus on anti capitalism. |
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| Oct-31-22 | | Ninas Husband: Have they buried this guy yet? :) |
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