The Hall of Evil: Vladimir Lenin | Paul Kengor

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

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The 1917 Russian Revolution reshaped global history, ushering in the rise of communism under Vladimir Lenin. In this episode of PragerU’s Stories of Us, Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science at Grove City College, reveals how Lenin led a violent Marxist uprising that toppled the Russian Empire and gave birth to the world’s first totalitarian state. Discover how terror, mass murder, and radical ideology fueled Lenin’s vision—and why his legacy still matters today. This video was made possible through a generous donation from the Robert W. Plaster Foundation, part of the Robert W. Plaster Foundation Playlist: Free Enterprise Will Set You Free, which educates Americans on the virtues of our nation's founding principles and the consequences of straying from them. This video is part of a 6-part series. Click here to watch the entire Hall of Evil series. Get all our content ad-free on PragerU.com or download the PragerU app: https://l.prageru.com/45GvWlu Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram X/Twitter Facebook Rumble Follow Dr. Paul Kengor: Instagram: Faith and Freedom, The American Spectator X: Dr. Paul Kengor, The American Spectator Facebook: The American Spectator, Faith and Freedom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	The Russian Revolution of 1917 should never have happened.
0:35.5	The reason it did was because one man and one man alone insisted
0:38.9	that it must. That man was Vladimir Linen. All the death, misery, and incomprehensible suffering
0:44.8	that resulted from the creation of the first totalitarian state in human history would not have
0:49.1	been possible without him. Attempts to disassociate Lennon from the horrors of Soviet communism
0:54.1	are disingenuous. First,
0:56.4	and contrary to his apologists, there were no good intentions behind Lenin's insatiable quest for power.
1:02.1	Second, since those intentions never existed, it was impossible for Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin,
1:07.9	to distort them. Stalin merely completed what Lenin started.
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