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Thanks.  I find Lenin a very contradictory figure.  He appears to have been, personally, a very unpleasant person, very self-righteous, and unwilling to understand any viewpoint but his own.  Yet his motive---to end the economic suffering of millions of people---cannot be considered, in general, as negative.  But the means he chose to accomplish this---and his belief that what he called State Terror would create rather than destroy support for his program---is incredibly evil.  And we were blessed to see his bizarre experiment thwarted and collapsed in our lifetimes.  But at the cost of how many lives---tortured or murdered.  For me, all of those lives are summed up in the faces of the Czar's four children---innocents who were murdered on Lenin's direct orders.