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[-] qwename@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 9 months ago

It's a good quote but please don't attribute it to anyone unless you have proof of it.

Someone did some investigating but found nothing concrete either: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/02/22/rope/

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 months ago

🥺that’s too bad, I wonder who said that phrase first bc that hits hard

[-] Juice@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

Where does Lenin say this?

[-] TheUltimateCommunist@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 9 months ago
[-] Juice@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

Doesn't say where he said it. Its like an urban legend. I've had someone quote me something he said that was kind of maybe sort of similar, attributed to a journal published like 40 years after his death, that is only in Russian. But if even that one quote is in that journal, which has nothing to do with rope or hanging anyone, I can't figure out where.

It's the only line of Lenin most people know and I don't think he even said it

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 9 months ago

He never said it, and it is disregarded as a myth.

The quote actually comes from a 1955 periodical where an anti communist army officer attributed the quote the Lenin.

[-] lemat_87@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Still, this is quite a good idea, and I think PRC is already doing it.

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