A lot of interesting info could a teenager get from that note:
- That Lenin knew English.
- That Lenin knew and respected an American genius.
- That the American genius wrote to him in 1921 and Lenin received the letter.
- That Lenin had time to write and send this letter ( there was no way to do that other than through the US Red Cross).
- That in the middle of the Civil War, recently shot two times at close range, Lenin still considered it important to correspond with Steinmetz.
Readers, please, if any of you could find similar letter from the US President to the Russian scientist ( not a political one), let me know.
In the Y2008 GW Bush visited my former school. I doubt they showed him that letter; he wouldn't know about Steinmetz anyway. Instead they published on their website the flattering bio of Simon Petlura. That guy was a leader of the Ukrainian nationalist government during the Civil War, the Directoria. When after he ran away and was eventually killed in France by the Jewish student, the details of the atrocities of his goons were revealed in the French Court. That small mishap, of course, was not disclosed to our glorious President, who thanked Ukraine for its military support in the Iraqi war. He also thanked my former school. For the proper Ukrainian spirit, you know..
In the Y2014 the neo- Nazi Ukrainian government, supported by Obama and Biden, destroyed the very modest and very beautiful monument to Lenin in the city center. It was made from the same stone as his mausoleum in Moscow. Come to think of it, they drape the mausoleum now.
The ugly heap of garbage with the symbols of that barbarism should be still there; it was there in January. I wonder if our USA official visitors would arrange a photo-shoot with President Zelensky at that place. Quite a show it would be- a perfect sign of the Western support of the 'embittered people of Ukraine.'
You know, they did such thing before. It was during the Lvov Pogrom, when Germans entered the city at the start of the war in 1941. Then the Ukrainian nationalists, among other atrocities, forced the Jews to kiss the fallen Lenin statue. And they made the photos with the Germans at the site. What a tradition, really.
Lenin turned 152 this year. He still stands there, on that monument, despite the desecration. He is there, the 'greatest and the simplest of men'.
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