WHO THE HELL WAS LENIN? Some readers may not know who Lenin was. First who he was not. He didn’t have sisters who appeared on the Lawrence Welk Show in the 1950s. Those were the singing Lennon Sisters, no connection. And his name is not Lemon, (no relation to the MLB player Chet Lemon), although in photos he seems to be sucking one. Josef Lenin led the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 to get rid of the tsar and was the first leader of the USSR. In other words, he made himself the new tsar or king of the country. Russia forced countries like Lithuania and Latvia to join it into the new federation of the USSR. Lenin used the same tactics Hitler used to convince France to surrender: send in troops. Join or die. Lenin said he got his communist ideas from Karl Marx, the guy who wrote The Communist Manifesto, but that was bullshit because Lenin just wanted to be the new tsar. (And, by the way, Karl Marx never worked a day in his life.
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