Lenin Reflects..

Perhaps no man ever worked so hard at what he thought was the salvation of a nation as Lenin did. Yet, during a lucid conversation in his last illness he confessed to a former classmate and confidant:

“I have deluded myself. Without doubt, it was, I suppose, necessary to free the oppressed masses. However, our methods resulted in other oppressions and gruesome massacres. You know I am deathly ill; and in my most awful nightmare, I feel myself drowning in an ocean of blood formed by countless victims. To save Russia, what we needed (but it is too late now) was ten men like Francis of Assisi. Ten like him, and we would have saved Russia.” Lenin at the end of his life, 1924
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