Putin criticizes Lenin fiercely

moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924), known as Lenin harshly criticized. Putin called the man throughout Russia still statues of standing, the cause of the decline of Russia in the last century.

,, Lenin has laid an atomic bomb under the building Russia and is then exploded, '' grumbled Putin.,, And the world revolution (Lenin's pet peeve) we did not need. '' Putin said at a meeting of nuclear scientists in Moscow.

His annoyance at the extreme left-wing revolutionary Lenin came out when one of the scientists, Michael Kovaltsjoek, Lenin praised,, ability to shape the minds of millions of people. ''

Putin is not a fan of Lenin established a Communist reign of terror in the 1917 revolution. Earlier, Putin called the collapse of Russia under the Communists the greatest disaster of the twentieth century.

A spokesman for Putin hastened to say that Putin in his personal capacity said there are no plans to demolish Lenin statues of Lenin to get away from the mausoleum on Red Square.