Exposing the myths about Lenin and his mystical burial

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

I suggest that you familiarize yourself with interesting material that breaks down the historical absurdities in the life of Vladimir Ilyich, whom modern propaganda dubbed a "German spy", and stupid ordinary people - a "Jewish Bolshevik".

Consider also the lie about the burial of Ilyich

Myth number 1. The legend of the cunning Jew Blanca

IN AND. Lenin was born in the Simbirsk province, in the city of Simbirsk (Ulyanovsk). But if from his father's side he was both Russian Ulyanov and remained so (his father, Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov, was an inspector of public schools in the Simbirsk province, and was also considered a nobleman), then from his mother's side, who was born Blank, we can see completely different roots.

However, these roots were not Jewish either! Vladimir Ilyich's mother, Maria Alexandrovna, was of Swedish-German descent by her mother.

M. Bychkova, a researcher at the Institute of Russian History, who researched this topic in detail, wrote the following about this: “I managed to work in the Kazan archive with the funds of the provincial noble assembly and establish that there really were two Alexander Blanks, whose biographies were deliberately mixed.

Lenin's grandfather, Alexander Dmitrievich Blank, came from an Orthodox merchant family. Starting service in 1824, in the 40s he rose to the rank of court councilor with seniority (lieutenant colonel), which gave him the right to hereditary nobility. In this sense, his biography very much coincides with the biography of Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov.

These were people from the same milieu, whom the conditions of the 19th century made it possible to quickly advance up the career ladder and leave their children the right to be considered nobles …"

What the propagandists do not do in order to turn people away from socialism! What kind of tools are not used! And even such shameful things as anti-Semitism, chauvinism, and nationalism openly enter the battle against the dead leader of the working class. But will they win? Unlikely!

Myth number 2. German spy

Another of the main myths revolves around the fact that Lenin was allegedly a "German spy." A kind of "James Bond" of the 20th century, who tried to destroy the "Holy Tsarist Russia", and who managed to do it. Insidious and bloodthirsty! But first, before citing a historical fact, we will quote Comrade Stalin himself on this matter:

"In all bourgeois countries, slanderous accusations of treason were leveled against the revolutionary leaders of the proletariat. In Germany - Liebknecht, in Russia - Lenin. The Central Committee of the Party is not surprised that the Russian bourgeois resort to the tried and tested method of fighting" unwanted elements."

It is necessary that the workers say openly that they consider their leaders impeccable, solidarize with them and consider themselves participants in their cause - JV Stalin, Speeches at an emergency conference of the Petrograd organization of the RSDLP (Bolsheviks), June 16-20, 1917.

And Lenin himself, in the open press, directly accused Parvus of working for German agents. However, better than Lenin's notes is evidenced by the quotation of the same Stalin, which a dear reader could have read above. For the first time, the "information stuffing" was made by the Provisional Government in June 1917. Then the Kronstadt sailors led by Yarchuk (an anarchist) staged a mass strike, which the Bolsheviks tried to turn into a peaceful demonstration. The result - the mass execution of the strikers, the pogrom of the printing houses of the Bolsheviks, as well as their persecution and arrest.

The testimony of one of the accusers of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in espionage, ensign Ermolenko, was cut off immediately. They wanted to refer to the commercial operations of Ganetsky in Russia, who was familiar with Lenin and Parvus - but nothing came of it either, because Ganetsky was exporting finances from Russia, not importing them. The Bolsheviks had to be released, on symbolic bail …

The head of the American Foreign Department of the Committee of Public Information (actually, the Ministry of Propaganda) Edgar Sisson, who in 1918 published the so-called "Sisson documents", allegedly confirming Lenin's participation in the so-called "German-Bolshevik conspiracy", invested a lot in this myth.

These "documents", for which Sisson so generously paid, were considered a forgery in Europe, and the US State Department was inclined to do so. The New York Evening Post and the Nation published refutations. Despite numerous protests by representatives of the Committee, who accused the opponents of these "documents" of "Bolshevism", in 1956 George Kennan proved that the documents were forgeries.

There are rebuttals by Robert Lockhart, a career diplomat and intelligence officer.

And even the United States (!) In the 50s completely denied Lenin's involvement in German money, because the documents turned out to be fake, and all the institutions that had the documents signed by them were non-existent.

Myth number 3. Was there a "shame disease"?

Several years ago, the Kremlin funeral program was released on NTV, which insisted that Lenin still had syphilis. But, as we know, television is also a source of propaganda, therefore, I would like to refute another false and dirty myth.

There are several examinations - this is a foreign examination, completely independent of the Soviet regime, and ours, a domestic one. Max None, a German specialist, author of the reference book "Syphilis and the Nervous System", denied the diagnosis, although initially Lenin was given drugs intended for the treatment of syphilis….

And in the 70s, Brezhnev himself instructed medical specialists to deal with this myth. And again, as noted by Soviet doctors, no signs of syphilis were found …

Nowadays, Academician BV Petrovsky also refutes the inventions about syphilis: "BV Petrovsky:" The very history of V. I. arteries and, as a culminating moment, hemorrhage in the area of the vital centers of the brain. All the clinical symptoms of this tragedy, observed by Soviet and foreign medical scientists at the patient's bedside, confirm this."

But in fact, the real problems and the subsequent illness of Vladimir Ilyich occurred due to the attack of the Socialist-Revolutionary Fanny Kaplan, who inflicted several bullet wounds on the leader …

Myth number 4. The Wealth of Ilyich

When the anti-Soviet arguments run out, they start screaming about a certain bourgeoisness of Lenin, who had fabulous accounts in foreign banks, expensive hotel rooms, and luxurious breakfasts in bed. However, they are all deliberately false. The main source of income for Lenin was his own work. Also, having wealthy parents, Ilyich sometimes asked his mother for money for books and for minor expenses. In 1917, in a letter to a certain Shlyapnikov, a party comrade, he did write that he had to die from lack of money.

If we touch upon the Swiss adventures of Lenin in more detail, then we can cite the following facts: Notebooks with reports have survived - how much and on what the members of the Central Committee's foreign bureau spent. There were three of them - Lenin, Kamenev, and Zinoviev - plus Shlyapnikov, a member of the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee.

They received from the party treasury the so-called diet - 200 rubles. This translated into francs. Plus, as chief editors, they also received about 100 rubles for their newspapers. Each had literary earnings, each collaborated with newspapers. And Lenin at that time wrote immortal works - "Marxism and Agrarian Questions", "Imperialism as the Highest Stage of Capitalism." All of them also appeared in Russia, due to which the leader lived.

Vladimir Ilyich died without leaving behind any bank accounts, but on the other hand, a nascent, great country.

Myth No. 5. And the carriage is sealed

But let's return to German espionage and break another myth - that Lenin was sent in a sealed carriage by the Germans to destroy Russia. This myth is now extremely widespread through information channels. However, none of the channels recalls that with the fall of the tsarist regime and the establishment of the power of the Provisional Government, political emigrants were allowed to return to their homeland.

Lenin seized the chance. But, as we can summarize, Lenin is not alone. A whole group of leftist revolutionaries was traveling through Germany. RSDLP, with all this had a larger number of migrants. However, we forget that besides the Bolsheviks, there were also Mensheviks …

In itself, Lenin's return was not out of the ordinary - he was one of those who rode with many. The method was incredible - but it was more about diplomatic relations. After all, they were traveling in a carriage - opponents of the First World War. And it means that the car was sealed, first of all, because of the calculations of the safety of its passengers …

All these myths are currently being actively used by anti-Soviet people of all stripes. All this lies from time to time remind of themselves, convincing them of their truthfulness. But what do we really see? Quite the opposite …

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Probably, it is worth breaking one more, the last widespread myth - about "Lenin the usurper". There is a wonderful quote from Krzhizhanovsky, a fellow party member of Lenin, who says literally "everything" about him as a person:

“Someone correctly said that the greatest happiness for a person is a meeting and the opportunity to communicate with a person who is both higher and better than others. The happiness of such a meeting with particular brightness was felt by all of us precisely when communicating with Vladimir Ilyich.

All of us, who have walked different paths of life, having behind our shoulders a varied life experience, we will all testify in different ways, but about the same thing: meeting and working with him is the mighty and warm Ilyichevsk wing that was spread over us, this was our dearest happiness.

We all knew that while he was alive, there was such a center, such a strong point, in which not only wisely, but also with deep human insight, they would think and take care of us in order to lift us up and help us to be better and more useful for others. Approaching him and looking at him, we not only all looked up, but, sometimes even in an imperceptible way for ourselves, pulled ourselves up to be better and more worthy.

Never before in history has the human personality been raised so high on the most legitimate basis. But not for a minute did Vladimir Ilyich's head spin from this power, and not a single speck fell on him from the practice of this power.

He will go down in history as the most formidable enemy of any power of man over man, as the most selfless friend of calloused hands, fearless thought and consistent adamant in the struggle for communism."

Four big lies about Lenin's burial

Lie 1

The main propaganda blow is concentrated on instilling in public opinion the idea of Lenin's burial. And here the dastardly calculation is obvious - what a normal person would object to the burial of the deceased's remains. Although in the case of Lenin we are talking about reburial.

It seemed an obvious thing to everyone - Lenin was buried. As the founder of the Russian Federation and the USSR, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was buried with the highest state honors on January 27, 1924.

By the way, his contemporaries had no doubts that Lenin was buried. Newspaper articles and notes in January-March 1924 were full of headlines: "Lenin's Grave", "At the Ilyich's Grave", "At Lenin's Grave", etc.

And the form of burial was determined by the country's highest authority - the II All-Union Congress of Soviets - in the ground, at a depth of three meters in the crypt, over which the Mausoleum was erected. By the way, the delegate of the congress, Lenin's widow Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, also voted for this decision.

Even considering the burial of V. I. Lenin from the standpoint of modern legislation, and it takes into account the existing Orthodox cultural traditions of the Russian people, the crypt and the Mausoleum above it should be recognized as fully consistent with the modern laws of the Russian Federation. Lenin's embalmed body rests in a coffin-sarcophagus at a depth of three meters underground, which fully complies with the provisions of the Federal Law "On Burial and Funeral Business" dated 1996-12-01.

Article 3 of this law states: "Burial may be carried out by burying the body (remains) of the deceased on the ground (burial in a grave, crypt)." And the body of Lenin, we recall once again, was buried in a crypt (a vaulted tomb, buried in the ground).

It is difficult for an ordinary citizen to notice the substitution of the concepts of “burial” and “reburial” in a massive information flow: after all, the level of direction is very high - all state media, including television, even “independent” news agencies and liberal opposition publications write only about “burial”, carefully concealing the substitution concepts.

It is very unprofitable for political initiators of reburial to face the public in the guise of grave diggers. Hence the lie about the need for burial, which does not exist.

Lie 2

Lenin's body is on display, resting not in a Christian way, not buried.

Let us recall the public statement of Lenin's own niece Olga Dmitrievna Ulyanova: “I have repeatedly stated and will repeat again that I am categorically against the reburial of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. There is no reason for this. Even religious ones. The sarcophagus in which he lies is located three meters below ground level, which corresponds to both the burials according to the Russian custom and the Orthodox canon."

Olga Dmitrievna has repeatedly rebuffed the grave-diggers who assert that Lenin was allegedly buried not in accordance with folk traditions, outside the framework of the Orthodox cultural tradition.

As for the fact that the body is not buried, the answer has already been given on the basis of the provisions of the Federal Law "On Burial and Funeral Business": burial in a crypt is a form of burial in the ground. In Poland, for example, there are no graves in cemeteries. Only crypts.

And now about the review of the buried body. Is this really such an exceptional case in the practice of burying great, illustrious people in countries with a strong Christian cultural tradition?

The most famous example is the burial in the open sarcophagus of the great Russian surgeon Nikolai Pirogov near Vinnitsa. The sarcophagus with the coffin of the great scientist was placed in a crypt, which is one of the forms of burial in the ground and has been on display for almost 130 years. As it is written in the definition of the Holy Synod in St. Petersburg “so that the disciples and successors of the noble and godly deeds of the servant of God N. I. Pirogov could behold his light appearance."

And here is an excerpt from the conclusion of the Chairman of the Commission of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR on the funeral of V. I. Lenin) decided to take measures at the disposal of modern science for the longest possible preservation of the body."

How, in this case, does the decision of the state body of the Russian Empire, which was the Holy Synod, which allowed his students and admirers to “contemplate the bright appearance” of the deceased scientist Pirogov, differs from the same decision of the supreme body of state power represented by the Congress of Soviets and the Central Executive Committee of the USSR? Nothing? Then why is everything calm on the first occasion, but on the second there is a universal hubbub?

As you can see, in the case of the noise around the form of Lenin's burial, political slyness, covered by some pseudo-religious incantations, is evident.

After all, no one, neither in the case of Pirogov, nor even more so in the case of Lenin, raises the question of copying the practice of treating the relics of saints canonized by the Church. Nobody carries the bodies of Pirogov or Lenin around the country for worship by believers, as the Church does with the relics of saints, does not carry. Nobody touches the embalmed bodies of the deceased great people.

Everyone understands that their incorruptibility is the recognition of their services to people (state, society, various communities, etc.). Only citizens who revere such great statesmen and scientists, entering the crypt, get the opportunity to "contemplate the bright appearance."

By the way, in such a fiercely Catholic country, a similar approach was taken during the burial of the “head of state”, the founding father of the Second Republic of Poland, Marshal Pilsudski, whose relations with the official church were also far from cloudless. He passed from Catholicism to Protestantism, then again to Catholicism. And the May 1926 coup, staged by the founder of the state, was very bloody.

And in the creation of concentration camps, Pilsudski distinguished himself very well. But … the founder of the state. Although the Catholic Church even engaged in after the burial of dragging his remains to the Wawel crypts, which provoked a conflict between the episcopate and President Mostitsky.

Let us remind you that Pilsudski was buried in 1935 in the Wawel Castle, in a crypt in a glass coffin. But the embalming was ineffective. As a result, only a small window was left, which is currently closed.

Lie 3

Attempts continue to be made to instill in society that it is necessary to fulfill the last will of Lenin, who allegedly bequeathed to bury himself next to his mother at the Volkovo cemetery in Leningrad.

This lie has been circulating around the world since it was first voiced at one of the sessions of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, broadcast live, by a certain Karjakin. Then the fable was picked up by the dad of the current socialite and Putin's mentor Anatoly Sobchak.

From the statements of Olga Dmitrievna Ulyanova it is unambiguously clear: “Attempts to prove that there is a will to be buried in the Volkov cemetery are untenable. There is no such document and could not have been, our family also never had any conversations on this topic. Vladimir Ilyich died at a fairly young age - at 53, and naturally, he thought more about life than about death.

In addition, given the historical era in which Lenin lived, his nature, the character of a true revolutionary, I am sure he would not have written a will on this topic. Vladimir Ilyich was a very modest man who cared less about himself. Most likely, he would have left a testament to the country, to the people - how to build a perfect state."

Scientist and publicist A. S. Abramov, Chairman of the Board of the Charitable Public Organization (Fund) for the preservation of the Lenin Mausoleum, has repeatedly quoted in the media the response of the RCKHIDNI (this is the former Central Party Archive) to the Yeltsin administration's inquiry regarding Lenin's will.

The official response to the President of the Russian Federation said that "there is not a single document of Lenin, his relatives or relatives regarding Lenin's last will to be buried in a certain Russian cemetery."

A. S. Abramov is right, asserting that even from the everyday point of view, the arguments about the Volkovo cemetery are completely false. After all, Lenin is already resting next to the widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his sister Maria Ulyanova, whose ashes are in the necropolis near the Kremlin wall.

Lie 4

It is necessary to remove the Mausoleum and the Necropolis of the Heroes of the Soviet era, since you cannot turn Red Square into a cemetery. The historical ignorance of the authors of this argument is obvious. The territory of the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed or "Cathedral of the Intercession on the Moat" is also the most ancient cemetery.

What, gentlemen-United Russia, will blow up the cathedral and dig graves to make it more comfortable for you to organize skating rinks and variety shows? And other sovereign burials in the Kremlin cathedrals do not interfere with your fun?

Red Square in its current form is a place of power formed in the RSFSR and the USSR. Here are the concentration of symbols of all historical eras - from Muscovite Rus (the role of the place of power here was played by the Execution Ground) to the USSR (the state tribune and the burial place of the founding father of the current Russian Federation and the heroes of the Soviet era). And the current rulers of the Russian Federation, organizing parades in honor of the Victory Day of the USSR in World War II, de facto recognize this highest status of Red Square.

In the big marketplace, which was Red Square before Lenin and Stalin, Victory parades are not held. For some reason, state ceremonies will clearly not look at the Cherkizovsky market.

Therefore, how uncomfortable and unpleasant you, gentlemen temporary from "United Russia", will have to endure when rituals of power in Red Square and Lenin in the Mausoleum, and Stalin's grave, and all the burials of heroes of the era of the RSFSR and the USSR. Without this, the current government does not even have the semblance of historical legitimacy.

In general, the barbarity and dimness of modern Russian Westerners-liberals are striking. They would try in some of the NATO countries to hint about destruction or grave-digging, say, in the mausoleum of President Grant in New York (a symbol of triumph in the Civil War of the North over the South), the mausoleum of the founding father of modern secular Turkey, Ataturk. Or talk about the "betrayal" of the founding father of the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Marshal Pilsudski or Emperor Napoleon, whose tombs are on display.

As you can see, all the argumentation of the necrophobes from United Russia and its liberals sang along with white threads. This is an attempt to settle historical scores with the great Soviet era against the background of the worthlessness of the current government, which is increasingly showing its state failure against the background of the real achievements of the USSR.

For comparison

Other burial places of great statesmen

Mausoleum of the founding father of the modern Turkish Republic of Ataturk.

As seen, in NATO countries with civilization and mausoleums everything is in order.