LENIN

Lenin was the grand repudiator. He repudiated everything. He repudiated GOD, king, country, morals, debts, rents, interests, the laws and customs of centuries, all contracts written or implicit, the whole structure- such as it is- of human society. In the end he repudiated himself. He repudiated the communist system. He confessed its failure in all important spheres.

 He proclaimed that new economic policy and recognized private trade. He discarded for what he had slaughtered so many for not believing his dictum.

They were right, it seemed after all. They were unlucky that he did not find it out before. But these things happen sometimes; and how great is the man who acknowledges his mistakes! Back again to wash the dishes and give the child a sweetmeat. Thence one more to the rescue of mankind.

This time perhaps the shot will be better aimed. It may kill those who are wrong; not those who are right. But after all what are the cannons food, should be communist laboratory be denied the raw material for sociological experiment.

When the subtle acids he had secreted, ate through the physical texture of his brain. Lenin mowed in ground. The walls of the Kremlin were not the only witness f a strange decay.

It was reported that for several months before his death he mumbled old prayers to the deposed gods with ceaseless interaction. If it be true, it shows that irony is not unknown on mount Olympus.  Bu this gibbering creature was no longer Lenin.

He had already gone. His body lingered for a space to mock the vanished soul. It is still preserved in pickle for the curiosity of the Moscow public and for the consolation of the faithful