"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

spoke of peasants he had hanged and began to laugh as if it had been a
joke.
It has been made public in the Russian press how, when Felix Dzer-
zhinsky (actually Rufin), chief of the Cheka, told Lenin of the execution of
five hundred leading intellectuals in 1918, the great dictator, in his joy,
began to neigh like a horse. He went into ecstasies and cheered out of
satisfaction.
In August 1990, the artist Ilya Glazunov was on Leningrad's most
popular TV programme, "600 Seconds", where the host asked him: "Who
do you believe to be the greatest criminal of the twentieth century?"
Glazunov answered: "Isn't it obvious? Everyone realises who it is." The
host was stubborn: "No, I have no idea whom you mean. Tell me, who are
you thinking of?" Glazunov said: "Lenin, of course."
Many people who knew Lenin personally stated that chiefly hatred and
merciless cruelty fueled him. He always received news of executions with
a smile. He wanted house searches and arrests to occur at night. The real
leader of the terrorist organisation Cheka was actually Lenin. At the
Seventh Soviet Congress in December of 1919, Lenin stressed that well-
organised terror was necessary. He explained that a good communist must
at the same time be a good Chekist.
Another myth claims that Stalin took power from the so-called
Workers' Councils against Lenin's will. But Lenin wrote the following as
early as 1918: '"All power to the Workers' Councils!' was the slogan of
the peaceful revolution. It is no longer applicable." (Lenin, "Collected
Works'', Vol. 25, p. 156.)
According to another myth, Lenin advocated democracy and freedom. If
only he had had a longer time in power, everything would have been
different.
Lenin stressed as early as 1917 that the workers needed no liberty,
equality or fraternity. (Lenin, "Collected Works", Vol. 26, p. 249.) He also
said that Marxism lacked ethics. The only ethics of Marxism is the class
struggle. (Lenin, "Collected Works", Vol. 26, p. 378.)
Stalin did not deviate from the path of Leninism, as was later asserted.
He dismantled NEP, which had by then served its purpose. Lenin had
given instructions to that effect. Gorbachev also went by these guidelines.
Lenin wrote: "If the front-line attack fails, we should go around and
continue more slowly. We must exploit capitalism." This was in 1921
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