Messages, appeals and statements of Comintern (SH)

Greeting message of the Russian Section

A hundred years ago, on January 21, 1924, at 6 p.m., a government message flew around the world:

"L-E-N-I-N died."

This loss was huge and majestic not only for his colleagues, comrades, relatives, not only for the workers and peasants of the young Soviet country, but for all progressive humanity. Even these days, Lenin's ideological enemies respectfully bowed before the figure. The German bourgeois newspaper Prager Tageblatt wrote: "Lenin seems great, inaccessible and terrible even in death." For Lenin's close comrades and friends, the loss of a man they had known either since childhood or were very familiar with them from underground and revolutionary work was a great grief.

"L-E-N-I-N U-M-E-R" was the party's message.

It was tiny and small, however, and in these two words reflected all the grief of the hardworking people for the great leader. And so, 100 years have passed. There are even more points of view or hypotheses regarding Vladimir Lenin, his works and death. You can mock as much as you like and look for some "reasons", a double meaning in Lenin's death. However, no slander and no "refutations" or "proofs" will be able to destroy the image of a great loss, the loss of "The most humane person". "Gorki Leninskie" is now just a park. There are also buildings where V. I. Lenin lived and visited both after being wounded in 1918 and in recent months. He loved to walk here very much, to communicate with the peasants and their children. Now, museums are devoid of an ideological component and tell "about the history" and "its past inhabitants." However, it was here that Vladimir Ilyich's death occurred. In recent months, Vladimir Lenin has felt terrible. The vicious bullet of Fanny Kaplan, which was fired back in 1918, reminded me of myself. Lenin began to develop paralysis of his right arm. As we said earlier, you can search for the causes of death as much as you like, talk about them, however, it is more humane and poignant to see the reaction of humanity to the death of a great leader. On January 21, at 6:50 p.m., Vladimir Ilyich's heart stopped. The doctors' efforts were in vain. Most illiterate peasants who were friends with their neighbor instantly learned about the death. More and more peasants came to Lenin's house. The coffin with the body of the leader was carried along one of the trails. Now, there is a memorial sign and monument by sculptor Sergei Merkurov "Death of a leader". Soon the funeral train arrived and the body left for the capital. Most people learned about death almost fleetingly. The workers were in great terror. According to the memoirs, the workers of large factories were depressed. Everyone did not believe in the loss of a dear friend. In a few days, more than half a million people visited the coffin, which was located in the hall of columns of the House of Unions. Lenin's associates held posts and made funeral speeches. The most famous was Stalin's famous "oath". "Never since Marx has the history of the great liberation movement of the proletariat put forward such a gigantic figure as our late leader, teacher, friend," the Central Committee of the RCP (b) wrote in its appeal, informing the party and all working people of the death of the great leader. A funeral rally of 800,000 people was held in Petrograd. And at the request of the workers, the city began to bear the name of Lenin. The next day, after Lenin's death, the world's first monument to V. Lenin was erected on the territory of the Bogorodsko-Glukhovskaya manufactory in Bogorodsk (now Noginsk). Soon, letters began to arrive at the government's post office asking for an extension of the farewell to Lenin. The comrades-in-arms understood perfectly well that the body should be preserved. A new science has come to the rescue-embalming. At that time, this direction was experimental and unknown, so some of Lenin's comrades opposed it. However, it was decided to embalm Lenin's body. To begin with, a temporary Mausoleum was built. The variants of the coffin and the Mausoleum were designed by talented people of the country.

The version of architect A. Shchusev and the glass version of architect K. Melnikov were approved. In the second half of the 20s, the Mausoleum was rebuilt, and in 1930, it received a famous granite outline. For many foreign workers, Lenin's death was an equally profound loss. The workers wrote letters of condolence to the workers' and peasants' government. Together they discounted wreaths and tickets for a trip to Moscow. There was a special reaction from the bourgeois, hated governments. The Albanian parliament, the only one in the world, honored the memory of V. Lenin with a minute of silence.

The mausoleum became a symbol of Lenin's immortality, the immortality of his ideas. It was visited by a huge number of people, including true Marxists. Enver Hoxha was one of them, as part of the Albanian delegation. Lenin's death by no means removed interest in the ideals of Marxism-Leninism. Lenin's teaching continued to live after the death of its founder. Lenin's name became the name of victory, the victory of socialism and communism in the future. In conclusion, we would like to summarize the immortal and famous lines of

Vladimir Mayakovsky,

which can rightfully be called the main division of the 100th anniversary of the immortality of V. I. Lenin:

"Builds, destroys,

       cuts           

And he's vomiting, he's quiet,     

It's boiling        

and foaming, buzzing, silent,        

says           

and the young army is roaring: the Leninists. We are new blood         

Urban veins, the body of the fields, weaving ideas        

thread. Lenin —     

lived. Lenin —     

Alive. Lenin —     

He will live."