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Friday, January 18, 2019

Bertrand Russell on meeting Lenin





I wish we had heard Bertrand Russell’s impressions of Lenin in my high school history lessons.  
excerpt from the audio:


Lenin: Oh dear me no, we are not establishing peasant proprietorship, you see there are workers and some rich peasants and we stirred up the poor peasants against the rich peasants and these soon hanged them to the nearest tree . Ha, ha, ha, ha! 

Bertrand Russell:  I did not much like that.