History UsefulNotes / VladimirLenin

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': One episode reveals The Soviet Union never disbanded for real. When they ended the masquerade, Lenin rose from his mausoleum as a zombie that needs to "crush capitalism".

Critics argued that there was continuity between Lenin and Stalin's policies, but the fact remains that Lenin held office for the shortest time of any head of state of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, and his involvement with the government he built was far shorter than that of other revolutionary founders such as UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and UsefulNotes/MaoZedong. His international reputation is strongest in post-colonial nations in Africa, South America and Asia, where he's still seen and admired as a heroic figure who modernized Russia and succeeded in transforming his country, and his sympathy to sparking revolution in 'developing' countries led him to endorse and create many Third Worldist viewpoints. It's possible to draw [[HistoryRepeats quite a few parallels]] between Lenin and UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre, though Lenin, while he respected Robespierre, considered [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolutionMajorFigures Danton]] his true favorite of the French Revolutionaries. The principal difference aside from culture, time, place and age, [[note]]Robespierre and Danton [[YoungAndInCharge were in their mid-30s when they died]], Lenin was in his late-40s when he took power and 54 when he died [[/note]]is that the French Revolutionaries were [[FromNobodyToNightmare mere nobodies]] who found careers within a spontaneous event they did not predict and rarely controlled, finally losing direction (and their heads). In contrast, Lenin was a professional revolutionary who dreamed, planned and achieved his vision through intelligence, passionate and lifelong devotion, iron will, unshakeable and dogmatic conviction in the [[KnightTemplar righteousness of his cause]], and a charisma that inspired many others to his ideals, and left behind a government that, for better and worse, lasted 74 years and decisively shaped the 20th Century.

Critics argued that there was continuity between Lenin and Stalin's policies, but the fact remains that Lenin held office for the shortest time of any head of state of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, and his involvement with the government he built was far shorter than that of other revolutionary founders such as UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and UsefulNotes/MaoZedong. His international reputation is strongest in post-colonial nations in Africa, South America and Asia, where he's still seen and admired as a heroic figure who modernized Russia and succeeded in transforming his country, and his sympathy to sparking revolution in 'developing' countries led him to endorse and create many Third Worldist viewpoints. It's possible to draw [[HistoryRepeats quite a few parallels]] between Lenin and UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre, though Lenin, while he respected Robespierre, considered [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolutionMajorFigures Danton]] his true favorite of the French Revolutionaries. The principal difference aside from culture, time, place and age,[[note]]Robespierre and Danton [[YoungAndInCharge were in their mid-30s when they died]], Lenin was in his late-40s when he took power and 54 when he died[[/note]] is that the French Revolutionaries were [[FromNobodyToNightmare mere nobodies]] who found careers within a spontaneous event they did not predict and rarely controlled, finally losing direction (and their heads). In contrast, Lenin was a professional revolutionary who dreamed, planned and achieved his vision through intelligence, passionate and lifelong devotion, iron will, unshakeable and dogmatic conviction in the [[KnightTemplar righteousness of his cause]], and a charisma that inspired many others to his ideals, and left behind a government that, for better and worse, lasted 74 years and decisively shaped the 20th Century.

Critics argued that there was continuity between Lenin and Stalin's policies, but the fact remains that Lenin held office for the shortest time of any head of state of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, and his involvement with the government he built was far shorter than that of other revolutionary founders such as UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and UsefulNotes/MaoZedong. His international reputation is strongest in post-colonial nations in Africa, South America and Asia, where he's still seen and admired as a heroic figure who modernized Russia and succeeded in transforming his country, and his sympathy to sparking revolution in 'developing' countries led him to endorse and create many Third Worldist viewpoints. It's possible to draw [[HistoryRepeats quite a few parallels]] between Lenin and UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre, though Lenin, while he respected Robespierre, considered [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolutionMajorFigures Danton]] his true favorite of the French Revolutionaries. The principal difference aside from culture, time, place and age[[note]]Robespierre and Danton [[YoungAndInCharge were in their mid-30s when they died]], Lenin was in his late-40s when he took power and 54 when he died[[/note]], is that the French Revolutionaries were [[FromNobodyToNightmare mere nobodies]] who found careers within a spontaneous event they did not predict and rarely controlled, finally losing direction (and their heads). In contrast, Lenin was a professional revolutionary who dreamed, planned and achieved his vision through intelligence, passionate and lifelong devotion, iron will, unshakeable and dogmatic conviction in the [[KnightTemplar righteousness of his cause]], and a charisma that inspired many others to his ideals, and left behind a government that, for better and worse, lasted 74 years and decisively shaped the 20th Century.

* In VideoGame/ColdWar his body appears in his Mausoleum and can be seen through the glass.