No. Chernenko isn't Lenin's heir !
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THE RULERS of the USSR claim continuity with Lenin. The imperial- methods, and his oppression of non-Russian nationalities in the USSR, ist bourgeoisie are happy to agree. They try to bury Lenin under the and urged Trotsky to take up the fight against Stalin.
Trotsky was to wage this fight for the seventeen years before his The present system did not arise from the 1917 Revolution. It arose No, Chernenko is not Lenin's successor. He is the successor of the out of the destruction of the working class rule won by that revolution, and the seizure of power by a privileged bureaucrący, led by Stalin. As Trotsky, Lenin's comrade and co-thinker after 1917, expressed This counter-revolutionary transformation was carried out by a one- - a river of blood separated Lenin's Bolshevism from the Stalinist sided civil war, in which the Stalinists slaughtered millions of workers and peasants - and almost all the leading members of Lenin's party. Lenin's programme and Lenin's ideas - what Lenin really stood for Lenin spent his last dying months in 1923 trying to fight the grow- - are the deadly enemy of what exists in the Soviet Union today. ing power of the new bureauertir elite, He denounced Stalin's brutal crimes of Stalinism.
Yet no greater lie has ever been told. assassination in 1940.
gravedigger of the revolution, Josef Stalin.
counter-revolution.
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Socialist Organiser no.166 February 16 1984 Page 10
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1917 1924 1957 11964 1982 19:4 Men of the Soviet dynasty. Len, in made the revolution, Stalin created a superpower, Krushchev liberalised, Brezhnev restored, Andropov tried to reform.