Huh? "General opprobrium?" What planet is this writer from? Lenin is popular in Russia.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal ------------------
But unlike in Russia, when this transition is finally completed, there will be no wholesale repudiation of its founding revolutionary moment in 1949 or of its revolutionary leaders. V.I. Lenin, personally, theoretically, politically and historically is a far more admirable character than Mao Zedong and does not deserve the general opprobrium he has received from a Russian public now bereft of any sense of balance regarding its historical moorings. But it is Mao who will be remembered more sympathetically by China and the Chinese.