A Soulful Journey

In Moscow, G.B. Shaw met Lenin's widow, Krupshaysa.  He reported, "She had given the Soviets a piece of her mind so roundly that Stalin had threatened if she did it again he would appoint another widow for Lenin." It is not easy to accept criticism, but it makes us most human.

"When Lenin's party was a fairly small splinter group in Russian socialism he named it the Bolshevik party, which in Russian means the majority power.  The opposition obligingly, and with awesome stupidity, accepted the designation of Mensheviks, the minority party.  In a decade and a half they were."  - Carl Sagan Be careful how/what you label, call, yourself as well as others.  You become what you say you are (as well as those others whom you label).

During a gigantic celebration in Red Square, after Trotsky had been sent into exile, Stalin, standing on Lenin's tomb, suddenly and excitedly raised his hand to still the acclamations: "Comrades, comrades!" A most historic event! A cablegram - of congratulations from Trotsky!" The hordes cheered and Stalin read the historic cable aloud: JOSEPH STALIN KREMLIN, MOSCOW YOU WERE RIGHT AND I WAS WRONG. YOU ARE THE TRUE HEIR OF LENIN. I SHOULD APOLOGIZE. TROTSKY You can imagine how the crowd exploded in astonishment and triumph.  But in the front row, below the podium, a little tailor called Stalin over and whispered to him, "Such a message, Comrade Stalin.  For all the ages! But you read it without the right feeling." Whereupon Stalin raised his hand and stilled the crowd.  "Comrades!  Here is a simple worker, a loyal Communist, who says I haven't rad the message from Trotsky with enough feeling!  Come, Comrade worker.  Up here!  You read this h...

“In the 1930s when rumors circulated in Moscow that the figure in Lenin's tomb was wax, a chemist took some correspondents to the tomb. Saying the body would last a century he opened the glass and tweaked the nose of the mummified remains.” - Newsweek 1982 Sometimes the need to affirm what we believe is so strong that we resort to the absurd.