Images of Lenin #58
Lenin on Red Square at a parade of workers' regiments formed under the Universal Military Training Scheme (Vsevobuch) Moscow, May 25, 1919 -- Images of Lenin #58
"Today we are celebrating the universal military training of the working people.
Up to now, matters military have been an instrument of the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists and landowners. And to this day capitalists all over Europe are holding out with the aid of the remnants of their old armies, commanded by bourgeois officers. But this most reliable prop of the bourgeoisie will collapse when the workers take up the rifle, when they begin to form their own, vast proletarian army, when they begin to train soldiers who know what they are fighting for, who will defend the workers and peasants, their factories and workshops, and prevent the landowners and capitalists from coming back to power.
Today’s festival demonstrates the successes we have achieved, the new force that is springing up from the working class. This parade convinces us that Soviet power has won the sympathies of the workers of all countries, that the fraternal alliance of world Soviet republics will take the place of world wars." -- from Lenin's speech at the parade
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This is the fifty-eigth in our daily feature that will be looking at over 75 international Lenin photographs, sketches, sculptures, artworks and photographs from a Soviet archive of the early 1970s. Many of these are quite scarce and uncommon now and many are truly amazing works and pieces.
These are divided into art, Lenin centennial posters from 1970 and Lenin photographs.
We will share them with history and quotes where appropriate.
They will eventually all also be shared in three posts related to the major themes.
The first of these is: Lenin centennial posters from around the world, 1970 (theleftchapter.com)