OUR TRIP TO LENIN'S PLACE


We (my wife and I) vacationed for the holidays 'Burevestnik', (translated into English 'Mallemuk') in a settlement called Repino (close to Leningrad). The Soviet Union seized that place from Finland in the winter war of 1940.

In Finland it was named Kookolo. That was where the great home of Repin was located. He was a famous Russian painter. He died there in Finland. From our lodging, we took a bus trip to a place called 'Rasliv', (translated into English 'flood'), a historic place for the Soviet people.

Nearby in the forest was the hovel where Lenin went into hiding from the Czar's government (1917). On the stump of a tree, Lenin wrote an article about how to begin the revolution. There we saw a pavilion inside of which there was the historic hovel. Somebody from the excursion asked the guide, "With whom did Lenin live there?" She answered, "Alone". He said, "He lived with Zinovev". (That was the period of 'Glastnost'). In Stalin's time ('30s) Zinovev was killed as a counterrevolutionary.

The guides were instructed by a member of the 'Ricom party' (district committee CPSU) responsible for ideological work, about what they had to tell us about that event. In Stalin's time that person who spoke about Zinovev could have been arrested and jailed for 8-10 years according to article 58 on 'anti-Soviet propaganda'

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