On April 22, 1870, a great thinker of the world was born in the Russian city of Simbirsk, who was the founder of the Bolshevik Party, the leader of the October Revolution, the spiritual leader of the world proletarian revolution, and also a lifelong follower of Marxism, who was the famous communist thinker Lenin in history. Lenin spent his whole life fighting for the cause of communism, even at the cost of his life.
On January 22, 1924, Lenin died of illness and went to sleep, and the bells of the whole country rang out in salute to mourn him. After Lenin's death, in order to commemorate this great spiritual leader, people sealed his body in a crystal coffin for posterity to see.
Fast forward a hundred years, thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and only 10% of Lenin's body remains. In order to preserve his body, it takes millions of embalming every year, and many people call for it to be cremated for burial under such a huge cost, but it has not yet been achieved. Why not let such a great man "go into the ground"?
First, the great birth of a generation of communist thinkers
Lenin, whose original name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, was born into a wealthy family. Lenin's father, a secondary school teacher, eventually earned the title of nobleman after much effort and became the director of education of the Provincial Department of Education. Originally, it was a happy family, but when Lenin was seventeen years old, all this disappeared.
Lenin's father, who was on the run for education, eventually died of overwork; Lenin's brother refused to betray his revolutionary partners and was eventually hanged and executed by the Tsar for giving up his future. This succession of bad news crushed Lenin and the otherwise happy family step by step. After the loss of his loved ones, Lenin began to wonder why such a tragedy had happened, and he finally understood that the culprit of all this was the "cannibalistic" tsarist dictatorship.
The upheaval in the family made Lenin work harder from then on. In 1887 he was admitted to the faculty of law at the University of Kazan, and in 1891 he received a diploma from the University of Petersburg as an honors student. After receiving a superior education, Lenin understood that the vast number of poor people in Russia had been oppressed and exploited for a long time, and that it was impossible to change this social situation.
Lenin believed that it was first necessary to start with the thinking of the Russian proletarian masses, to change their habit of bowing to feudal tsarist despotism, and to eradicate in their minds the idea of long live tsarist despotism. In 1892 Lenin organized the first Marxist group, and in the same year he wrote his first proletarian work, New Economic Changes in the Life of the Peasants. As soon as the article was published, it caused a sensation in Russia.
The article "New Economic Changes in the Life of the Peasants" is not empty talk, but is written by Lenin in the light of reality. In this article, Lenin conducted an in-depth analysis and study of peasant agriculture in Russia on the basis of Postnikov's "Peasant Economy in South Russia", and reflected on all the practical problems in the Russian peasant economy at that time. This article played a certain role in promoting the development of the Russian peasant economy in the future.
2. The brave man of the revolutionary cause
Lenin's life can be described as full of thorns and ups and downs. He dedicated everything he had to the great revolutionary cause, and it can be said that he was a true revolutionary brave. From the day he found his purpose in life, Lenin's life changed. Newspapers, meetings, and speeches became his routine, as did arrest and exile.
In 1887, Lenin was expelled from Kazan University after participating in a protest march against tsarist despotism, and he later came into contact with Marxism in Moscow by chance. At this time Lenin discovered that the Communist Manifesto was the correct idea that could lead Russia forward and lead tens of thousands of poor Russian people out of the sea of suffering, and from then on he preached the spirit of communism in Russia.
During this period Lenin debunked the brutal decay of Tsarist autocracy and mobilized all the proletarian people to rise up against Tsarist despotism. Because of this action, he became the leader of the resistance of all the proletarian people in Russia to feudal despotism, and eventually he was sentenced to 14 months in prison and exiled to Siberia for three years after his release.
In November 1905, the bourgeois-democratic revolution in Russia broke out, and Lenin directly led the revolutionary struggle as its leader. In December of the same year, an armed uprising was launched in Moscow, which lacked organization and discipline and could not end in failure. Lenin was arrested again after the failure of the armed uprising in Moscow and began his more than a decade-long exile.
Lenin experienced two exiles in his lifetime, but this did not extinguish the revolutionary fire in his heart. During the two exiles Lenin continued to write, and a series of Lenin's works during this period became important ideological theories of the subsequent Russian communist revolution. In the end, he led the Russian proletariat on the road of revolution and became the savior and spiritual teacher of the poor people of Russia.
(III) The founder of a new type of proletarian party
Lenin used to say in his speeches: "There will be bread, there will be milk, everything will be." He promised the Russian people that they would build a proletarian revolutionary party for them, and for this he worked tirelessly day and night. In 1911, the October Revolution led by Lenin was victorious. This revolution was the first victory of the communist movement in the history of mankind, and since then the first socialist state under the leadership of the proletariat in human history has been born.
The victory of the October Revolution dealt a heavy blow to the feudal rule of Russian imperialism, but at the same time greatly encouraged the world proletariat to carry out revolutionary struggles and the liberation movement of the oppressed nations in the colonies and semi-colonies. This action of Lenin declared to the world that socialism was not a fantasy, that communism could overthrow capitalism, and that the proletariat could become the master of the state.
The victory of the October Revolution set Russia on the road to socialism and into a new era, a news that greatly shocked the capitalist world at that time. The October Revolution was not an easy victory, but a great victory for tens of thousands of revolutionary fighters in Russia in the form of sacrificing their lives. The martyrs who died in this revolutionary struggle were not only contributors to the cause of Russian communism, but also heroes of the communist struggle of nations and countries all over the world.
Fourth, the great man in the crystal coffin
After the October Revolution, the Soviet Republic was established, but there were still many opposition forces in society, and Lenin established the Cheka to combat all these opposition forces. Then all the opposition forces pointed their finger at Lenin, believing that the proletarian power in Lenin's Russia would cease to exist as soon as it was eliminated. In 1918, russian opposition forces carried out two assassinations of Lenin, and in one of them, Lenin was unfortunately hit by a bullet and seriously injured in the neck.
In the two years between 1922 and 1923, Lenin suffered three strokes from an old neck injury. Every stroke caused him great physical pain, and his health deteriorated. During the period when his condition worsened, Lenin's face became emaciated, and he died on January 21, 1924, in the village of Gorky, at the age of 54.
In the hearts of the Russian people Lenin is as sacrosanct as a god. Every Russian people has a faith in Lenin, and they hold him to the highest esteem as his spiritual leader. When the news of Lenin's death came, every Russian people was devastated and devastated. In order to let Lenin live forever in the hearts of every Russian people, the government decided to keep Lenin's body intact in a crystal coffin to show that Lenin's immortal revolutionary faith would live forever.
Now only 10% of Lenin's remains have been preserved for nearly a hundred years, and the Russian people spend no less than a million yuan a year on maintenance fees to keep Lenin's body, such a huge amount of expenditure has become a burden on Russia's economic development, but now Russian President Putin still insists on not cremating Lenin's body and burying it.
Putin said that Lenin's body is the spiritual pillar of all Russian people and cannot be cremated and buried at will. He believed that Lenin's body represented the magnificent scene of countless Soviet Russian people in the past who had worked hard for the revolutionary cause and made fearless sacrifices. Preserving Lenin's body is not only a tribute to all revolutionaries, but also a remembrance and respect for the history of the revolution in the past.
5. Summary
Revolutions require bloodshed and sacrifice. In the long course of history, there are countless people who have sacrificed for the revolution like Lenin, who are the peaks of the mountains that look down on the mediocre ravines, and who are the warriors who despise the lowly cowards in the vast sea of people. As the flames of the revolution shed their last drops of blood, the great revolutionary spirit is still singing forever. Their former servants and successors regarded death as a homecoming, and exchanged their lives for the people's beautiful and happy life.
"Some people are alive and he's dead, and some people are dead but he's still alive." Lenin is this man whose body is dead but whose spirit is still alive. He opened up a light in the darkness for the oppressed classes and oppressed nations of the world and led them to the light. If one day Lenin's body is gone, he will still live in the hearts of every Russian people and in the hearts of communist believers all over the world.
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