Reviewing Vladimir Lenin’s Legacy

One hundred years after his demise, Vladimir Lenin, who masterminded the 1917 Russian Revolution, continues to inspire communist and left movements in different parts of world though the Soviet Union he created collapsed in 1990. Jan 21, 2024 marked his death centenary and the occasion was not observed with much fanfare in his own country. On Sunday, a few dozens of communist leaders and cadres attended at Red Square in Moscow and paid their respects to the man who established world’s first socialist state - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Gennady Zyuganov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, who led the people paying tributes to the late Bolshevik leader, said, “Lenin tried to build a just world with brotherhood among nations — without capitalism."