(05-18-2017, 12:09 AM)mateinone link Wrote:Do you have some sources?
I read this a while ago now, I will find it and get back.
OK, these two references are not my original readings but pretty closely summarise them and prompted my post.
Lenin in fact had Jewish ancestry but did not openly identify as being Jewish. The Bolsheviks however had a disproportionally high Jewish representation and were not, IMO, primarily motivated by improving the lot of the people of Russia.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/05/opinio...47092.html
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_weber.html
Reality always wins in the end.

