Holidays of the USSR - Birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

In the Soviet Union, on April 22, VI’s birthday was widely celebrated Lenin The fiery revolutionary did not like magnificent festivities, considering it pointless to waste time on bravura speeches and celebrations Therefore, no ceremonial events were held during Lenin’s life After Ilyich’s death in 1924, a tradition arose to celebrate his birthday everywhere - in all cities and villages of the USSR Volodya was born in 1870 in Simbirsk, in the family of a tradesman Ilya Ulyanov, an inspector of public schools The future leader of the CPSU (b) learned to read by the age of 4, studied well at school, graduating with a gold medal In 1881, Lenin entered Kazan University, where he created a circle of “people's avengers” 7 years later he joined the Marxists, and later led the revolutionary movement and the Bolshevik Party Quotes from VI Lenin:  The phrase of the leader of the proletariat “We will go a different way” is widely known The statement referred to the act of his brother, Alexander Ulyanov, who committed an attempt on the life of the Tsar Lenin believed that to fight autocracy it was necessary to abandon terror and use other, more effective methods Initially, on the eve of Ilyich’s birthday, subbotniks were held, the first of which took place in 1919 on the initiative of workers of the Moscow-Kazan Railway The “Festival of Liberated Labor” and the active participation of the proletariat in it were reflected in the leader’s article “The Great Initiative” On May 1, 1920, along with ordinary people, the leaders of the Country of Workers’ and Peasants’ Councils came out for a cleanup day Particular attention was paid to cleaning the area around the Kremlin There, according to eyewitnesses, Ilyich, along with everyone else, carried heavy logs for several hours The participation of the head of the Bolshevik Party in this event became overgrown with myths and legends over time This is where the tradition of holding spring subbotniks on Ilyich’s birthday began Quotes from VI Lenina: Ilyich discussed the importance of cinema during conversations with AV Lunacharsky - revolutionary, publicist and critic However, for decades, descendants quoted Lenin’s famous expression only partially The full phrase of the Marxist theorist sounds like this: “Since we are a nation of completely illiterate people, the most important art for us is cinema and the circus” After a while, on April 22, not only cleanup days began to be held, but also concerts, competitions, competitions and other public events For the solemn date, postage stamps and postcards were issued, posters were drawn with the image of the leader Most of all, the Octobrists and Pioneers were preparing for the birthday of “Grandfather Lenin,” who looked at children from all the portraits with his famous squint They laid flowers at numerous monuments to the leader, of which there were more than 14,000 on the territory of the USSR by 1991 The Octobrists were directly related to Ilyich - their five-pointed stars depicted a small, curly Volodya Quotes about VI Lenin: Albert Einstein, the founder of theoretical physics, was a convinced pacifist, humanist and socialist He repeatedly appealed to Stalin, demanding in his letters the release of Soviet scientists imprisoned in prisons and camps Einstein had great respect for Lenin, believing that “people like him are the guardians and renewers of the conscience of mankind” Today, the birthday of the fiery revolutionary is celebrated by members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Union of Soviet Officers, participants in the “Children of War” movement, “The Essence of Time” and other public organizations According to tradition, on April 22, flowers and wreaths are laid at the mausoleum on Red Square and other surviving monuments of the leader Birthday of VI Lenin is no longer a red date on the calendar, but there is no need to talk about the complete oblivion of the main ideologist of Marxism Quotes from VI Lenina: The ideologist of Marxism and leader of the proletariat defended democracy and equal opportunities for all citizens, regardless of origin Lenin coined the famous expression: “every cook must learn to govern the state”