Lenin's speech on antisemitism

Gramophone records, March 1919

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[freddiemercury]

It's weird being able to hear the voice of a leader from 101 years ago...

[Brendan-rzlp]

fun fact, he spoke English with an irish accent

[NovaCaine]

And there are certain individuals who would claim lenin was antisemitic

[chauffouradrien]

Damn he was ahead of his time a hundred years ago

[gurbajsingh]

I can feel that energy in his voice even I don't understand Russian.

[capitalliz]

A speech made a hundred years ago, and yet, it is so relevant again today. The upper classes continue to sow mindless hatred amongst the workers to disunite us.

[Amadeus]

I have never heard his voice before :)

[CoolNinja]

"Workers of the world, unite!"

[arilaine]

It's incredible to be able to hear a speech from more than a hundred years ago and agree with every word. To say Lenin was ahead of his time would be an understatement.

[usercommon]

Like it or not.
He's spitting facts

[enderboythree]

His voice and stalins were a lot higher than i thought, for some reason i thought they would have deep voices

[mikeor-]

My great-great-grandfather, Mendel, was in the Tsar's Army, which he left in 1917, just after the October Revolution. His brother experienced the pogroms when his wife and her family were killed during the White Army's raid of his town. He heard this speech with his own ears, and when he found out who said it, he was convinced that Comrade Lenin would save his family. His son, my great-grandfather, was born the same year Lenin said those words. Unfortunately, Mendel lived through Lenin's death, Stalin's dictatorship, Malenkov's incompetence, Khrushchev's tyranny, and Brezhnev's bigotry. Just before his death, Mendel lamented how far the Soviet Union had fallen from Lenin's promises, especially after its creation in 1922. His son, my great-grandfather Yasha, lived long enough to see not only the fall of the Soviet Union, but also the twenty-first century, and got to know me.

[aliceseverin]

"This ancient, feudal ignorance is passing away; the eyes of the people are being opened". This quote is so sad now that the USSR has been dissolved... How ashamed of Russia Lenin would be today!

[nsaurabh]

A revolutionary who changed the world.

[beatlessteve]

I really did not know Lenin was a Jewish sympathizer, I knew among the Bolsheviks they were close to 10% Jewish (Trotsky) but I always thought most of the socialists openly or secretly hated Jews.I have listened to may of Lenin's speeches and I do not see a spiteful, hateful ideology or manipulating slandering, viewpoint the other side claimed to have seen.On the contrary he seems very articulate and fair.

[tylr]

Imagine how much the fate of the USSR would have changed if Lenin lived to at least the 1950's.

[KrazyKatPosse]

A wonderful speech - and sadly, still very relevant even a century later.

[doctrnic]

I like how he leans forward to speak not much people do that anymore

[saidroustayar]

As a young man, he had the traumatic experience of losing his older brother, Sacha, who was executed and hanged by the Tsarist regime. He went right back to studying, graduated from school at the top of his class with a gold medal for exceptional performance, and never let up. He started his revolutionary activities, and ended up leading a movement that eventually toppled the Tsarist regime and liberated millions of people from their chains.

In the social hierarchy of men that left their stamp on human history, Lenin, as a courageous, tactical genius, stands at least in my top 3.

[dudesupreme]

Salute to one of the greatest working class heroes