Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-09
Lenine Dead
Still Dominates
Russian Thought

Moscow, Aug. IS "a. P. by maiD--
Like SO many other commanding fig
ures in history Nicolai Lenine, crea-
tor of Soviet Russia. Is greater in
death than in life. II the founder of
the modern communist state has
failed to become god" or saint"
he has literally become, in the minds
OF the Russian Bolsheviks, an idol
OF as great fame as Americas Wash
ington or Lincoln. In the center of
Moscow's famous RED Square," Le-
nine lies Wondering in a frail wood
en- tomb, symbol to the Bolshevilt
intelligence of the death of Russia s
greatest rebel and of the renaissance
of a new Russia.
Throughout the day and night.
within the walls of the Kremlin, as
sacred to Russians OF the monarch
ical period as Lenine's tomb is dear
to the heart of the Communist,
thousands Of Russians who have en-
braced the Soviet faith pass in ST.
lence before this strange mortuary
chamber of cedar and oak and, with
out getting a glimpse of the frail
body within, stop to do reverence to
its departed spirit.
There are those, of course, of the
old Czarist regime, who look upon the
wooden sepulchre as a grim reminder,
not of the death of a man, but of the
destruction of the old Russia. 1t Is
to guard against any untoward DEM
onstrations from such as these that
guards are on duty at the tomb and
behind the Kremlin walls, ready with
bayonets to suppress the slightest
gesture of instruction.
But it is not alone at Lenine's tomb
the Bolsheviks pay homage to his
memory and works. Countless streets.
villages, towns, railroad stations, and
even newly-born children have been
named after him. In every store.
restaurant. hotel, theatre. museum,
railroad station, and even on locomo-
tlves and upon airplanes high in the
sky, one sees lithographs of the rev.
dictionary leader. They are there,
whether the occupants or observers
like them or not. Leninism, the
Communists would like to have one
believe. has supplanted real religion
IN the minds of the people, which the
government set out to exterminate.
The visitors gaze is met all over
Russia by the image of Lenine. If
his likeness is not represented in
plaster busts in every shop window
in every town. it is found in the
schoolbooks, on posters, in every
government office, in public monu-
ments. in cinema films, on postage
stamps. in tourist souvenirs of Rus
STA. His portrait is seen even on
public lawns, ingeniously worked out
in flowers and foliage. 1t probably
Will soon appear on Russian coins.
1t is already furnace-blasted on
household dishes and pottery.
"Leninism" is as common in Rus
sian Technology as Marxism, Com
muntsnn or Syndicalism. The Soviet
authorities have seen to 1t that Rus
sia's children are duly instructed in
the life and achievements of their
first revolutionary head. They have
just appropriated nearly $1,000, 900
for the wider circulation Of Lenine's
writings among the population They
have set aside huge sum for the
erection of a magnificent mausoleum
OF marble and bronze to supplant the
present wooden tomb Of the Father
Of Modern Russia"
Today, seven months after Lenine
passed to the unknown, the pile of
wood that rests above