Lenin

Also known as HMS Alexander, Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Overview

Lenin was a Russian icebreaker originally built in England for the Russian Empire. Launched in 1916, before going into service for Russia, the ship first served in the Royal Navy during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. It was eventually acquired by the Soviet Union and served through World War II, and was scrapped in 1977. Building Armstrong Whitworth laid the ship down at Low Walker in June 1916 for the Russian Empire as yard number 905. She was to be called St. Alexander Nevsky after the Russian statesman and military hero Alexander Nevsky. The Russian naval architect and author Yevgeny Zamyatin supervised her building. She was launched on 23 December 1916 and completed in June 1917. The ship had three screws: two aft to propel her forward, and one in her bow to propel her in reverse. She had three Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion engines: one to drive each screw. Her total power was rated at 1,038 NHP. Service history By the time the ship was completed, the Russian Empire had ceased to exist following the February Revolution. In September 1917 the Royal Navy requisitioned and commissioned her as HMS Alexander. She served in the North Russia campaign, and was handed over to White Russian forces when the British withdrew in October 1919.

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Also known as HMS Alexander, Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Notable quotes

“To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin; and in order to apply and develop, “simple interpretation” is obviously not enough.”
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“Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.”
— "Lenin's Hanging Order" (11 August 1918), an order for the execution of kulaks, as translated in The Unknown Lenin : From the Secret Archive (1996) by Richard Pipes, p. 50
“Discrimination among citizens on account of their religious convictions is wholly intolerable. Even the bare mention of a citizen's religion in official documents should unquestionably be eliminated.”
— Collected Works, Vol. 10, pp. 83–87.
“History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.”
— Collected Works, Vol. 27, pp. 159–63.
“I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it ... All this is only the road to a World Revolution.”
— Statement after the October Revolution of 1917, as quoted in "Communists: The Battle over the Tomb" in TIME (24 April 1964).
“There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. (Морали в политике нет, а есть только целесообразность.)”
— As quoted in S. D. Mstislavskii (1925), Memoirs.

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