Academic lie about Lenin and Stalin

Viktor Kozhemyako

TODAY'S NUMBER OF "TRUTH" was already ready for signing in print, when one of our readers brought the book "VI Lenin" to the editorial office. Published recently, among others, dedicated to the "finalists" of the loudly advertised TV project "Name Russia", it is intended, of course, in order to prepare in its own way potential viewers to broadcast about Lenin, as much as possible discrediting the creator of the Soviet state. Trust this mission is not someone, but VM. Lavrov - Deputy Director of the Institute of Russian History, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Well, is everything done with academic thoroughness and accuracy? No matter how it is! About the book as a whole, we will still have the opportunity to talk, but something about it will say one fact.

It only needed to reveal the pages with illustrations, as the signature rushed to the eyes under the well-known photograph of the two leaders. A representative of academic science reports: "VI Lenin and IV Stalin in Gorki, 1922. The photograph was falsified (mounted) for Stalin's" Biography. "Actually, instead of Stalin, NK Krupskaya was sitting next to Lenin."

With full responsibility I declare to Mr. Lavrov: this is a lie!

By coincidence, just in the current issue of our newspaper there is an answer to the reader's question, connected specifically with this photo (see the note on page 5 - "Yes, a snapshot is genuine"). An authoritative expert on Lenin's theme answers, answers exhaustively, so I do not need special additions.

Unless once again marvel at the ignorance, insolence and deceit of this very Lavrov. I wrote about him in the previous issue of Pravda on November 18-19, and also in connection with libel: in the television program "Postscript" on TVC (see Pushkov and Dashkova shoot at Ilyich). And this is called a scientist? And this is a doctor of historical sciences?

In front of me is the edition of the illustrated supplement to No. 215 of Pravda dated September 24, 1922, which is kept in the archives of our editorial office. It is called "Comrade Lenin on vacation." Here on the 5th page, together with Stalin's notes on Vladimir Ilyich's visits to Gorki, the same picture was published.

Later, after the Great Patriotic War, when the brief biography of I.V. Stalin, this picture will go into it.

Why did you have to falsify and mount something? It is known that during Lenin's illness in 1922, Stalin visited Ilyich eleven times - more than any other member of the Politburo. However, to Mr. Lavrov this, like much more, seems to be unknown.

And the truth about Lenin and Stalin is not included in his task. The other is a lie. Here on the coming Sunday, November 23, laurels podelniki come out in the program "The Name of Russia", dedicated to V.I. Lenin, against the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, GA. Zyuganov, who will represent and defend him. Of course, they will come out with a big lie about the great son of Russia.

Source: Pravda newspaper No. 128 (29326) November 21 - 24, 2008

(http://cs1.kprf.ru/filestorage/pravda_issues/issue_29326.pdf)

Yes, the photo is genuine

During the "perestroika", I remember writing and talking about the fact that a well-known photograph, where Lenin and Stalin are sitting next to Gorki, is not real, that this is a montage, a fake. Then there was a particularly strong roll on Stalin, and so they wanted to emphasize: they say, Joseph Vissarionovich did not have close relations with Vladimir Ilyich. And later, when Lenin was completely overthrown, from the same Radzinsky, I think I heard that the picture is genuine. Clarify, please, as it really is.

V. MATVEEV. The city of Saratov. Doctor

IN THIS CASE, there is no room for any doubt and controversy. The photo "Lenin and Stalin in Gorki" was made by Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova in late August and early September 1922 and on September 24 of that year was published in the illustrated supplement to No. 215 of the newspaper Pravda. The negative-original (glass) measuring 6.4x8.9 cm is stored in RGASPI (Russian State Archive of Social and Political History).

Vladlen LOGINOV.

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor.