Lenin V.I. in relation to the Russians: “shoot and hang

On the Internet you can find various publications and discussions in which the opinion is expressed that the historian Anatoly Latyshev is a fictitious person or that there are no traces of his scientific activity before 1991. One of the most recent publications on this topic is Ildar Ilyasov’s post “Twenty Years of Lies” (“http://ledokol-ledokol.livejournal.com/149961.html”). Unfortunately, the authors of all these publications do not have information about the biographical information and scientific activities of Anatoly Latyshev, so in order to avoid incorrect statements on this matter in the future, I will provide data regarding his personality and his works.

Anatoly Georgievich Latyshev was born in 1934. He graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute in 1956. I was at Komsomol work. He studied at the Higher Party School (VPS) under the CPSU Central Committee. For twenty-five years he worked at the Department of International Relations of the High School under the CPSU Central Committee, and then at the Moscow and Central Higher Party School. For fifteen years he was a member of the Academic Council of the V.I. Lenin Museum.

He defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of historical sciences - The Swiss labor movement after the Second World War. (1945-1965) / Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee. Department of History of the International Communist and Labor Movement. Moscow, 1968

During the Soviet period, the following books and articles were published about V.I. Lenin and people and events associated with him (the list may not be complete; it also does not include articles written by A.G. Latyshev about other historical events and political figures):
Books:

Desyaterik V.I., Latyshev A.G. Hand in hand, like like-minded people. M.: Young Guard, 1970. 208 p. Circulation 50,000 copies.

Desyaterik, V.I., Latyshev, A.G. Wrestling teaches. Lenin and young foreign revolutionaries. M.: Young Guard, 1974.191 p., Circulation 45,000 copies.

Latyshev A. Lenin, youth of the world and revolution. M.: Knowledge, 1977. 64 pp. Circulation 79,360 copies

Latyshev A.G.V.I. Lenin and the Swiss labor movement in 1914-1917. // Questions of History, 1969, No. 6, p. 3-19.

Latyshev A. G. V. I. Lenin and the labor movement in Switzerland before the First World War // Scientific notes./ Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU. 1974. Vol. 1. pp. 215-249

Latyshev A. Lenin's Swiss friend. // Communist, 1984, No. 6, p. 103-113

Latyshev A. Flaws in the heritage. To really know Lenin and Stalin, you need to open primary sources and documents // Union, 1990. No. 11. P. 3.

In the first half, A.G. Latyshev left the CPSU in 1991. Became a member of the Democratic Party of Russia. Since September 1991, he worked as a political observer for the Democratic Newspaper, the newspapers Rossiyskoe Vremya and Morning of Russia.

At the end of September 1991, A. G. Latyshev, as a member of the temporary commission for the parliamentary investigation into the causes and circumstances of the coup d'etat in the USSR, got the opportunity to work for a month and a half in the Central Party Archive of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the CPSU Central Committee (CPA IML) with documents from V. I. Lenin Foundation. On this occasion, Ildar Ilyasov writes the following in his post: “Let’s turn to the documents. Resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR N 1642-I dated 09/06/91 “On the creation of a temporary commission for a parliamentary investigation into the causes and circumstances of the coup d’etat in the USSR.” There is a supplement to this resolution appendix - "Composition of the deputy commission to investigate the causes and circumstances of the coup d'etat in the USSR". There is no Latyshev there. And why on earth would he be there? With the exception of two people, all members of the commission were directly related to the Supreme Council. So Latyshev is here lies."

But it is worth noting that A. G. Latyshev was a member of the temporary commission as part of a group of experts, which was headed by Doctor of Philosophy B. M. Pugachev.

There is evidence that B. M. Pugachev, like A. G. Latyshev, worked in the archive with the V. I. Lenin Foundation:
“Here is the opinion of Doctor of Philosophy B.M. Pugachev, head of a group of experts of the Russian parliamentary commission. He is the first of mere mortals to become acquainted with Lenin’s unknown documents. Pugachev, in particular, noted: “Yes, we found a whole series of his letters, documents that have never been published before. You know, even for me, a person who has been involved in social science for many years, reading these papers was... well, surprising, or something. Ilyich’s letters characterize him as an extremely cruel person, moreover, as a man-hater.”

Evgenia Albats in her book “Delayed Action Mine”. 1992 to Chapter III. EXECUTIONERS AND VICTIMS provides references 27 and 48, which also confirm the participation of A.G. Latyshev in the commission - A. Latyshev. "Genesis of the totalitarian system in the USSR." Documents of the Commission of the Russian Armed Forces to investigate the causes and circumstances of the coup.

It is quite possible that a complete list with a list of all the experts of the commission is stored in the archival file Documents on the organization and activities of the Deputy Commission (copies of the resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, reports on the work of the commission, a report on the work of the commission of the USSR Supreme Court, draft resolutions, statements of the commission). GARF. F. 10026. Op. 4. D. 3471

After working in the archive with the V.I. Lenin Foundation, A.G. Latyshev began for several years in various newspapers and magazines to publish numerous articles, which, unlike his Soviet publications, already had a clear anti-Leninist orientation (it is worth noting that only regarding on the issue of V.I. Lenin’s participation in the execution of Nicholas II and his family, A.G. Latyshev defended the point of view that he was not involved in this execution). A. G. Latysheva was especially active in publishing the publication of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, which, thanks to its circulation of 1,000,000 copies. contributed to the widespread popularization of his articles. As an example, I will give the names of some of them:

Tomorrow's trouble. About Lenin’s “secret” and open funds // Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 1992. May 19. No. 113 (449);
- Late insight // Russian newspaper, 1992. July 3. No. 151 (487).
- The killer's position is vacant. New documents about the execution of the royal family. // Russian newspaper, 1992. August 29. No. 193 (529).
- German money for Lenin // Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 1992. September 29. No. 214 (550)
- Without a cross // Russian newspaper, 1992. October 24. No. 233 (569).
- “We did not stop before shooting thousands of people...” Unknown speech of Lenin // Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 1993. February 5. No. 24 (640).
- Lenin and the Jews // Russian newspaper, 1993. February 27. No. 40 (656).
- Two clear falcons were talking. On Lenin’s funds “secret” and “open” // Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 1993. March 27. No. 59 (675)
- Lenin and Romanian gold // Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 1993. April 24. No. 79 (695)
- Even the Cheka was more humane than the first chairman of the Council of People's Commissars // Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 1993. June 19. No. 116 (732)
- The saga about the fate of the sarcophagus. What to do with the Mausoleum of V.I. Lenin? // Russian newspaper, 1993. November 5, No. 207 (823).

In 1996, based on his numerous newspaper and magazine publications, A.G. Latyshev published the book “Declassified Lenin,” which was published in 15,000 copies, and then another 11,000 copies were printed. In addition, the book Latyshev A. G. Lenin: primary sources is published in a huge circulation of 51,000 copies. M., 1996. 48 p., which is an abbreviated version of the publication “Declassified Lenin”, published by the publishing house “Mart” in 1996.

Thus, we can state the fact that numerous articles by Candidate of Historical Sciences Anatoly Georgievich Latyshev, published in the 90s by various media, were used as a kind of propaganda mouthpiece, serving to denigrate and discredit V.I. Lenin. It is also worth noting that today the works of A.G. Latyshev are in demand among various historians and publicists. journalists who adhere to an anti-Leninist orientation in their publications.

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In Russia there are about 1,800 monuments to Lenin and up to 20 thousand busts. More than 5 thousand streets bear the name of revolutionary No. 1. In many cities, sculptures of Vladimir Ilyich rise in central squares. Although, if we knew the whole truth about the great leader, these monuments would have ended up in a landfill long ago.

Anatoly Latyshev is a famous historian and Leninist. Throughout his life he has been studying the biography of Ilyich. He managed to obtain documents from Lenin's secret fund and the closed KGB archives.

- Anatoly Grigorievich, how did you manage to penetrate secret funds?

This happened after the August 1991 events. I was given a special pass to familiarize myself with secret documents about Lenin. The authorities thought to find the reason for the coup in the past. I sat in the archives from morning to evening, and my hair stood on end. After all, I always believed in Lenin, but after the first thirty documents I read, I was simply shocked.

- What exactly?

Lenin from Switzerland in 1905 called on young people in St. Petersburg to pour acid on police officers in the crowd, pour boiling water on soldiers from the upper floors, use nails to mutilate horses, and throw “hand bombs” at the streets. As head of the Soviet government, Lenin sent out his orders throughout the country. A paper arrived in Nizhny Novgorod with the following content: “Introduce mass terror, shoot and take away hundreds of prostitutes who solder soldiers, former officers, etc. Not a minute of delay.” What do you think of Lenin’s order to Saratov: “Shoot conspirators and hesitators, without asking anyone and without allowing idiotic red tape”?

- They say that Vladimir Ilyich generally disliked the Russian people?

Lenin's Russophobia is little studied today. All this comes from childhood. There was not a drop of Russian blood in his family. His mother was German with a mixture of Swedish and Jewish blood. My father is half Kalmyk, half Chuvash. Lenin was brought up in the spirit of German accuracy and discipline. His mother constantly told him “Russian Oblomovism, learn from the Germans,” “Russian fool,” “Russian idiots.” By the way, in his messages Lenin spoke about the Russian people only in a derogatory manner. One day, the leader ordered the plenipotentiary Soviet representative in Switzerland: “Give the Russian fools a job: send clippings here, not random numbers (as these idiots have done until now).”

- Are there letters in which Lenin wrote about the extermination of the Russian people?

Among those terrible Leninist documents, there were particularly harsh orders for the extermination of compatriots. For example, “burn Baku completely,” take hostages in the rear, put them in front of the advancing Red Army units, shoot them in the back, send red thugs to areas where the “greens” operated, “hang them under the guise of “greens” (“we will then attack them and bring down") officials, rich people, priests, kulaks, landowners. Pay the murderers 100 thousand rubles each..." By the way, the money for the “secretly hanged man” (the first “Lenin Prizes”) turned out to be the only bonuses in the country. And to the Caucasus, Lenin periodically sent telegrams with the following content: “We will slaughter everyone.” Remember how Trotsky and Sverdlov destroyed the Russian Cossacks? Lenin then remained on the sidelines. Now an official telegram from the leader to Frunze has been found regarding the “total extermination of the Cossacks.” And this famous letter from Dzerzhinsky to the leader dated December 19, 1919 about about a million Cossacks being held captive? Lenin then imposed a resolution on him: “Shoot every last one.”

- Could Lenin so easily give orders to shoot people?

Here are some of Lenin’s notes I managed to get: “I propose to appoint an investigation and shoot those guilty of roteness”; “Rakovsky demands a submarine. We need to give two, appointing a responsible person, a sailor, putting it on him and saying: we’ll shoot you if you don’t deliver it soon”;

“Give Melnichansky (signed by me) a telegram that it was a shame to hesitate and not shoot for failure to appear.” And here is one of Lenin’s letters to Stalin: “Threaten with execution that slob who, in charge of communications, does not know how to give you a good amplifier and ensure that the telephone connection with me is fully operational.” Lenin insisted on executions for “negligence” and “slowness.” For example, on August 11, 1918, Lenin sent instructions to the Bolsheviks in Penza: “to hang (definitely hang) so that the people can see” no less than 100 wealthy peasants. Select “tougher people” to carry out the execution. At the end of 1917, when Lenin headed the government, he proposed shooting every tenth parasite. And this is during a period of mass unemployment.

- Did he also have a negative attitude towards Orthodoxy?

The leader hated and destroyed only the Russian Orthodox Church. So, on the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, when it was impossible to work, Lenin issued an order dated December 25, 1919: “It is stupid to put up with “Nikola”, we need to put all the checks on their feet in order to shoot those who do not show up for work because of “Nikola” (t .ie, those who missed the cleanup day when loading firewood into the cars on the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, December 19).” At the same time, Lenin was very loyal to Catholicism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and even sectarians. At the beginning of 1918, he intended to ban Orthodoxy, replacing it with Catholicism.

- How did he fight against Orthodoxy?

For example, in a letter from Lenin to Molotov for members of the Politburo dated March 19, 1922, Vladimir Ilyich insisted on the need to use the mass famine in the country to rob Orthodox churches, while shooting as many “reactionary clergy” as possible. Few people know about Lenin’s document No. 13666/2 dated May 1, 1919, addressed to Dzerzhinsky. Here is its content: “...it is necessary to put an end to priests and religion as quickly as possible. Priests should be arrested as counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, shot mercilessly and everywhere. And as many as possible. Churches must be closed. Temple premises must be sealed and turned into warehouses.”

- Anatoly Grigorievich, is it confirmed that Lenin had mental disorders?

His behavior was more than strange. For example, Lenin often fell into depression, which could last for weeks. He could do nothing for a month, and then he would be overwhelmed by vigorous activity. About this period, Krupskaya wrote: “Volodya fell into a rage...” And he was also absolutely devoid of a sense of humor.
- Was Lenin’s style rude enough?

Berdyaev called him a genius of swearing. Here are a few lines from Lenin’s letter to Stalin and Kamenev dated February 4, 1922: “We will always have time to take shit as experts.” You can’t “bring in trash and bastards who don’t want to submit reports...”. “Teach these assholes to answer seriously...” In the margins of Rosa Luxemburg’s articles, the leader wrote “idiot” and “stupid”.

- They say that Stalin organized grandiose drinking parties in the Kremlin during Lenin’s lifetime?

And repeatedly. In connection with this, Lenin often summoned and reprimanded him. But most often Ilyich scolded Ordzhonikidze. He wrote notes to him: “Who did you drink and hang out with today? Where do you get your women from? I don’t like your behavior. Moreover, Trotsky complains about you all the time.” Ordzhonikidze was still a party! Stalin was more indifferent to women. Lenin scolded Joseph Vissarionovich for drinking a lot, to which Stalin replied: “I’m Georgian and I can’t live without wine.”

- By the way, did Ilyich like banquets?

Feature films often show the leader drinking carrot tea without sugar with a piece of black bread. But documents have recently been discovered testifying to the leader’s abundant and luxurious feasts, about the huge quantities of black and red caviar, delicious fish and other delicacies that were regularly supplied to the Kremlin nomenklatura throughout the years of Lenin’s reign. In the village of Zubalovo, by order of Ilyich, luxurious personal dachas were built in conditions of the most severe famine in the country!

- Lenin himself liked to drink?

Before the revolution, Ilyich drank a lot. During the years of emigration, I never sat down at the table without beer. Since 1921, he quit due to illness. Since then I have not touched alcohol.

- Is it true that Vladimir Ilyich loved animals?

Hardly. Krupskaya wrote in her notes: “... the dog’s hysterical howl was heard. It was Volodya, returning home, who always teased the neighbor’s dog...”.

- Do you think Lenin loved Krupskaya?

Lenin did not like Krupskaya; he valued her as an irreplaceable comrade-in-arms. When Vladimir Ilyich fell ill, he forbade Nadezhda Konstantinovna to come to him. She rolled on the floor and sobbed hysterically. These facts were described in the memoirs of Lenin's sisters. Many Lenin scholars claim that Krupskaya was a virgin before Lenin. It is not true. Before her marriage to Vladimir Ilyich, she was already married.

- Today, probably, there is nothing unknown about Lenin?

There is still a lot that is not declassified, since Russian archivists are still hiding some data. So, in 2000, the collection “V.I. Lenin. Unknown Documents” was published. Some of these documents produced denominations. Before the publication of this collection, our archives sold falsified documents abroad. One American Sovietologist said that, having bought Lenin’s works for his book from the management of Russian archives, he then paid the publishers a fine of four thousand dollars because Russian archivists removed some lines from Lenin’s documents.

Throughout his life he has been studying the biography of Ilyich. He managed to obtain documents from Lenin's secret fund and the closed KGB archives.
- Anatoly Grigorievich, how did you manage to penetrate secret funds?
- This happened after the August 1991 events. I was given a special pass to familiarize myself with secret documents about Lenin. The authorities thought to find the reason for the coup in the past. I sat in the archives from morning to evening, and my hair stood on end. After all, I always believed in Lenin, but after the first thirty documents I read, I was simply shocked.
- What exactly?
- Lenin from Switzerland in 1905 called on young people in St. Petersburg to pour acid on police officers in the crowd, pour boiling water on soldiers from the upper floors, use nails to mutilate horses, and throw “hand bombs” at the streets. As head of the Soviet government, Lenin sent out
the country has its own orders. A paper arrived in Nizhny Novgorod with the following content: “Introduce mass terror, shoot and take out hundreds of prostitutes who solder soldiers, former officers, etc. Not a minute of delay.” And how do you like Lenin’s order to Saratov: “Shoot the conspirators and hesitant, without asking anyone and without allowing idiotic red tape"?
- They say that Vladimir Ilyich generally disliked the Russian people?
- Lenin’s Russophobia has been little studied today. All this comes from childhood. There was not a drop of Russian blood in his family. His mother was German with a mixture of Swedish and Jewish blood. My father is half Kalmyk, half Chuvash. Lenin was brought up in the spirit of German accuracy and discipline. His mother constantly told him “Russian Oblomovism, learn from the Germans,” “Russian fool,” “Russian idiots.” By the way, in his messages Lenin spoke about the Russian people only in a derogatory manner. One day, the leader ordered the plenipotentiary Soviet representative in Switzerland: “Give the Russian fools a job: send clippings here, not random numbers (as these idiots have done until now).”

Are there letters in which Lenin wrote about the extermination of the Russian people?
- Among those terrible Leninist documents, there were particularly harsh orders for the extermination of compatriots. For example, “burn Baku completely,” take hostages in the rear, put them in front of the advancing Red Army units, shoot them in the back, send red thugs to areas where the “greens” operated, “hang them under the guise of “greens” (“we will then attack them and bring down") officials, rich people, priests, kulaks, landowners. Pay the murderers 100 thousand rubles each..."
By the way, the money for the “secretly hanged man” (the first “Lenin Prizes”) turned out to be the only bonuses in the country. And to the Caucasus, Lenin periodically sent telegrams with the following content: “We will slaughter everyone.”
Remember how Trotsky and Sverdlov destroyed the Russian Cossacks? Lenin then remained on the sidelines. Now an official telegram from the leader to Frunze has been found regarding the “total extermination of the Cossacks.” And this famous letter from Dzerzhinsky to the leader dated December 19, 1919 about about a million Cossacks being held captive? Lenin then imposed a resolution on him: “Shoot every last one.”
- Could Lenin so easily give orders to shoot people?
- Here are some of Lenin’s notes I managed to get: “I propose to appoint an investigation and shoot those guilty of roteness”; “Rakovsky demands a submarine. We need to give two, appointing a responsible person, a sailor, putting it on him and saying: we’ll shoot you if you don’t deliver it soon”;
“Give Melnichansky (signed by me) a telegram that it was a shame to hesitate and not shoot for failure to appear.”
And here is one of Lenin’s letters to Stalin: “Threaten with execution that slob who, in charge of communications, does not know how to give you a good amplifier and ensure that the telephone connection with me is fully operational.”
Lenin insisted on executions for “negligence” and sluggishness.”
For example, on August 11, 1918, Lenin sent instructions to the Bolsheviks in Penza: “to hang (definitely hang) so that the people can see” no less than 100 wealthy peasants. Select “tougher people” to carry out the execution. At the end of 1917, when Lenin headed the government, he proposed shooting every tenth parasite. And this is during a period of mass unemployment.
- Did he also have a negative attitude towards Orthodoxy?
- The leader hated and destroyed only the Russian Orthodox Church. So, on the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, when it was impossible to work, Lenin issued an order dated December 25, 1919: “It is stupid to put up with “Nikola”, we need to put all the checks on their feet in order to shoot those who do not show up for work because of “Nikola” (t .ie, those who skipped the subbotnik when loading firewood into the cars on the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker on December 19)". At the same time, Lenin was very loyal to Catholicism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and even sectarians. At the beginning of 1918, he intended to ban Orthodoxy, replacing it with Catholicism.
- How did he fight against Orthodoxy?
- For example, in a letter from Lenin to Molotov for members of the Politburo dated March 19, 1922, Vladimir Ilyich insisted on the need to use the mass famine in the country to rob Orthodox churches, shooting as many as possible
more "reactionary clergy." Few people know about Lenin’s document No. 13666/2 dated May 1, 1919, addressed to Dzerzhinsky. Here is its content: “...it is necessary to put an end to priests and religion as quickly as possible.
Popovs should be arrested as counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, and shot mercilessly and everywhere. And as much as possible. Churches are subject to closure. The temple premises should be sealed and turned into warehouses."
- Anatoly Grigorievich, is it confirmed that Lenin had mental disorders?
- His behavior was more than strange. For example, Lenin often fell into depression, which could last for weeks. He could do nothing for a month, and then he would be overwhelmed by vigorous activity. About this period, Krupskaya wrote: “Volodya fell into a rage...” And he was also absolutely devoid of a sense of humor.
- Was Lenin’s style rude enough?
- Berdyaev called him a genius of swearing. Here are a few lines from Lenin’s letter to Stalin and Kamenev dated February 4, 1922: “We will always have time to take shit as experts.” You can’t “bring in trash and bastards who don’t want to submit reports...”. “Teach these assholes to answer seriously...” In the margins of Rosa Luxemburg’s articles, the leader wrote “idiot” and “stupid”.
- They say that Stalin organized grandiose drinking parties in the Kremlin during Lenin’s lifetime? - And more than once. In connection with this, Lenin often summoned and reprimanded him. But most often Ilyich scolded Ordzhonikidze. He wrote notes to him: “Who did you drink and hang out with today? Where do you get your women from? I don’t like your behavior. Moreover, Trotsky complains about you all the time.” Ordzhonikidze was still a party! Stalin was more indifferent to women. Lenin scolded Joseph Vissarionovich for drinking a lot, to which Stalin replied: “I’m Georgian and I can’t live without wine.”
- By the way, did Ilyich like banquets?
- In feature films, they often show how the leader drinks carrot tea without sugar with a piece of black bread. But documents have recently been discovered testifying to the leader’s abundant and luxurious feasts, about the huge quantities of black and red caviar, delicious fish and other delicacies that were regularly supplied to the Kremlin nomenklatura throughout the years of Lenin’s reign. In the village of Zubalovo, by order of Ilyich, luxurious personal dachas were built in conditions of the most severe famine in the country!
- Lenin himself liked to drink?
- Before the revolution, Ilyich drank a lot. During the years of emigration, I never sat down at the table without beer. Since 1921, he quit due to illness. Since then I have not touched alcohol.
- Is it true that Vladimir Ilyich loved animals?
- Hardly. Krupskaya wrote in her notes: “... the dog’s hysterical howl was heard. It was Volodya, returning home, who always teased the neighbor’s dog...”.
- Do you think Lenin loved Krupskaya?
- Lenin did not like Krupskaya, he valued her as an irreplaceable comrade-in-arms. When Vladimir Ilyich fell ill, he forbade Nadezhda Konstantinovna to come to him. She rolled on the floor and sobbed hysterically. These facts were described in the memoirs of Lenin's sisters. Many Lenin scholars claim that Krupskaya was a virgin before Lenin. It is not true. Before her marriage to Vladimir Ilyich, she was already married.
- Today, probably, there is nothing unknown about Lenin?
- There is still a lot that is not declassified, since Russian archivists are still hiding some data. So, in 2000, the collection “V.I. Lenin. Unknown Documents” was published. Some of these documents produced denominations.
Before the publication of this collection, our archives sold falsified documents abroad. One American Sovietologist said that, having bought Lenin’s works for his book from the management of Russian archives, he then paid the publishers a fine of four thousand dollars because Russian archivists removed some lines from Lenin’s documents.

On the Internet you can find various publications and discussions in which the opinion is expressed that the historian Anatoly Latyshev is a fictitious person or that there are no traces of his scientific activity before 1991. One of the most recent publications on this topic is Ildar Ilyasov’s post “Twenty Years of Lies” (http://ledokol-ledokol.livejournal.com/149961.html). Unfortunately, the authors of all these publications do not have information about the biographical information and scientific activities of Anatoly Latyshev, so in order to avoid incorrect statements on this matter in the future, I will provide data regarding his personality and his works.

Desyaterik V.I., Latyshev A.G. Hand in hand, like like-minded people. M.: Young Guard, 1970. 208 p. Circulation 50,000 copies.

Desyaterik, V.I., Latyshev, A.G. Wrestling teaches. Lenin and young foreign revolutionaries. M.: Young Guard, 1974.191 p., Circulation 45,000 copies.

Latyshev A. Lenin, youth of the world and revolution. M.: Knowledge, 1977. 64 pp. Circulation 79,360 copies

Latyshev A.G.V.I. Lenin and the Swiss labor movement in 1914-1917. // Questions of History, 1969, No. 6, p. 3-19.

Latyshev A. Lenin's Swiss friend. // Communist, 1984, No. 6, p. 103-113

Latyshev A. Flaws in the heritage. To really know Lenin and Stalin, you need to open primary sources and documents // Union, 1990. No. 11. P. 3.

But it is worth noting that A. G. Latyshev was a member of the temporary commission as part of a group of experts, which was headed by Doctor of Philosophy B. M. Pugachev.

March 31st, 2016

This year in March marks twenty years since the publication, without exaggeration, of the handbook of de-Sovietizers - “Declassified Lenin” by a certain Anatoly Latyshev, who calls himself a famous Leninist, who devoted his life to studying the biography of revolutionary No. 1 and wrote many scientific works on this topic.

Let's try to understand who he is, this prominent Lenin scholar, historian and citizen.

This is what he himself says about the history of the creation of the main work in his life in the article “Russians are “shits” (Lenin)”, resource America in Russian (the name already hints).

“...after the August 1991 events. I was given a special pass to familiarize myself with secret documents about Lenin. The authorities thought to find the reason for the coup in the past"
- http://www.rususa.com/news/news.asp-nid-1073

Already interesting. What were they looking for there in the past? Although, given the new information about Lenin planting various kinds of explosive objects that go off decades later, the step is quite logical. I fully admit that Lenin planned August 1991 back in the first years of Soviet power. It is absolutely unclear why the authorities turned specifically to citizen Latyshev. Apparently he was truly a great specialist in his field.

In an interview that was published in 2003, Latyshev simply says: “I was given a special pass to familiarize myself with secret documents about Lenin.” In the book, which was published in 1996, we read: “His Majesty Chance, Lady Luck - I don’t know how to more precisely define those opportunities for access to the never published works of V.I. Lenin, which opened up to me in mid-September 1991 after approval by a member of the temporary deputy commission of a parliamentary investigation into the causes and circumstances of the coup in the USSR.” Let's look at the documents.

There is an annex to this resolution - “The composition of the deputy commission to investigate the causes and circumstances of the coup in the USSR.” There is no Latyshev there. And why on earth would he be there? With the exception of two people, all members of the commission were directly related to the Supreme Council. So Latyshev is lying here. It was not for nothing that later he limited himself only to the fact of receiving a certain “special pass” and did not remember his “membership”.

Latyshev really tried to somehow explain his membership in the commission in the book, obviously realizing that this could raise questions - “The temporary deputy commission was headed by the leaders of the socio-political movement “Democratic Russia” Lev Ponomarev and Gleb Yakunin. I associate my invitation to the commission with the fact that it was precisely this movement that I supported as a candidate for deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR in the spring of 1990.”

So what do we have? Latyshev, who has absolutely no political or social weight, is not a deputy, and therefore does not have the opportunity to enter any deputy commissions, suddenly receives access to SECRET documents about Lenin? Personally, I do not believe that he even read any documents that were not previously known to the public.

Latyshev, according to his own statement, devoted his entire life to the study of Lenin’s works. Apparently he should have had published works in the USSR? They should, but I personally couldn’t find these works. Apparently, his entire bibliography is described in his statement - “On Leninist topics, since November 1991, I have published more than 150 unknown Leninist works, about 200 magazine and newspaper articles, published the book “Declassified Lenin” and the brochure “Lenin: Primary Sources.” In other words, before that he had not studied Lenin’s works in any way.

He was mentioned only twice in the works of other historians. Zhores Trofimov in his book “Volkogonovsky Lenin” mentioned Latyshev as a reviewer of D. A. Volkogonov, the author of the book “Lenin”, who did not hesitate to use fragments of Latyshev’s articles without attribution. Again, we are talking about the post-Soviet period of time. The second mention of Latyshev as a historian is found in the book of the ardent anti-Soviet Sergei Brown “Do not judge.” He liked Latyshev’s lies so much that he even published one of his “historical” works as an appendix.

So. There are no traces of Latyshev’s scientific activities before 1991. As a “famous historian and Leninist,” no one mentions him except himself. All of his “scientific” publications are lies and falsifications (more on this below), not particularly different from each other in content, which he later collected in a book.

A version has even been put forward several times that Latyshev, in principle, does not exist, that he is a fictional character. It’s difficult to say for certain here. We can only say for sure that we have no other information other than what he told about himself.

Let's move on to his work.

“For three months at the end of 1991, as a member of the “Temporary Deputy Commission for the Parliamentary Investigation of the Causes and Circumstances of the Coup d’Etat in the USSR,” I had the opportunity to work on documents of the Lenin Fund (f.2), first in the archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the CPSU Central Committee, and after the termination of admission to this archive, the second half of this period in the Central Archive of the KGB of the USSR with funds relating to the Leninist period of national history.”

“I sat in the archives from morning to evening, and my hair stood on end. After all, I always believed in Lenin, but after the first thirty documents I read, I was simply shocked.”

Let's see what he read. I won’t retell all the nonsense; those who wish can read it themselves. Here are just a few of his pearls:

. About religion:“Ruthlessly shoot all Orthodox priests, turn all Orthodox churches into warehouses. “At the same time, Lenin was very loyal to Catholicism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and even sectarians. At the beginning of 1918, he intended to ban Orthodoxy, replacing it with Catholicism. (as without Catholicism, he’s a German spy after all)

. About the Cossacks: Dzerzhinsky’s famous letter to the leader dated December 19, 1919 about about a million Cossacks being held captive? Lenin then imposed a resolution on him: “Shoot every last one.”

. About the Holodomor: In a letter from Lenin to Molotov for members of the Politburo dated March 19, 1922, Vladimir Ilyich insisted on the need to use the mass famine in the country to rob Orthodox churches, while shooting as many “reactionary clergy” as possible.

. About natural resources:“Can you also tell Ter (Ter-Gabrielyan) to prepare everything for the burning of Baku completely, in the event of an invasion, and to announce this in print in Baku.” Further, the author pays tribute to Lenin’s prudence and writes the following: “telegram to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caucasian Front on February 28, 1920: “Smilga and Ordzhonikidze. We desperately need oil. Consider a manifesto to the population that we will slaughter everyone if oil and oil fields are burned and ruined, and vice versa - we will give life to everyone if Maikop and especially Grozny are handed over intact.”

. About nutrition: Feature films often show the leader drinking carrot tea without sugar with a piece of black bread. But documents have recently been discovered testifying to the leader’s abundant and luxurious feasts, about the huge quantities of black and red caviar, delicious fish and other delicacies that were regularly supplied to the Kremlin nomenklatura throughout the years of Lenin’s reign. In the village of Zubalovo, by order of Ilyich, luxurious personal dachas were built in conditions of the most severe famine in the country! (one feels that the author wrote from life, and then moved the events 70 years ago!)

. About a healthy lifestyle: Before the revolution, Ilyich drank a lot. During the years of emigration, I never sat down at the table without beer. Since 1921, he quit due to illness. Since then I have not touched alcohol.

. About love for animals: Krupskaya wrote in her notes: “...the hysterical howl of a dog was heard. It was Volodya, returning home, who always teased the neighbor’s dog...”

. About relationships: When Vladimir Ilyich fell ill, he forbade Nadezhda Konstantinovna to come to him. She rolled on the floor and sobbed hysterically.

. About health: Let us note that, starting from 1922, most of Lenin’s treating doctors, both German and domestic, were neurologists or psychiatrists.

. About the revolutionary struggle:“It is devilishly important for us to finish off Yudenich (namely, to finish off - to finish off). If the offensive has been launched, is it not possible to mobilize another 20 thousand St. Petersburg workers plus 10 thousand bourgeoisie, place machine guns behind them, shoot several hundred and achieve a real mass pressure on Yudenich?

Just three and a half hundred pages of selective falsification, outright lies and juggling with facts that are absolutely not supported by documents. Yes, the author does not bother himself with evidence, citing the secrecy of the data. The most he cites is some archival catalog numbers, which, of course, were not subject to verification at that time. Although he accurately cites one document in his works, the alleged “Indication of Comrade. Lenin dated May 1, 1919 No. 13666/2 “On the fight against priests and religion”

Scan of a fake.

Here is the text of this “document”:

NOTE

In accordance with the decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council. Nar. The commissars need to put an end to priests and religion as quickly as possible. Popovs should be arrested as counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, and shot mercilessly and everywhere. And as much as possible. Churches are subject to closure. The premises of the temples should be sealed and turned into warehouses. Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Kalinin, Chairman of the Council. Nar. Commissars Ulyanov (Lenin)".

There are many refutations of this fake.

An excerpt from an article by Igor Kurlyandsky, a senior researcher at the IRI RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences:

First of all, let’s look at the so-called “Lenin’s Directive No. 13666/2 of May 1, 1919” on the “fight against priests and religion.” To begin with, let us note that in the practice of party and state office work there have never been documents with the title “Instruction”. In particular, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars did not publish a single document with this title during the entire period of their activity. There were only resolutions and decrees signed by the heads of these bodies (see the collections “Decrees of Soviet Power”), and no serial numbers were assigned to such documents. However, in all publications, the “Instruction” is accompanied by the serial number 13666/2, which implies the presence of many thousands of “instructions” in government records. It is very strange that not a single one of these documents is known to historians, has not been identified in archives, or has ever been published. Of course, such a number was invented in order to artificially introduce the apocalyptic “number of the beast” into it, to give the paper a pronounced mystical character, to connect it with the “satanic” element of Russian Bolshevism, which the wise “statist” Stalin allegedly put a limit on.

But, alas, during all his party and state activities, Lenin did not sign a single document that would bear the name “Instruction,” either with or without three sixes, as can be easily seen from his Complete Works, “Biographical Chronicle,” and collections "Decrees of the Soviet government." The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History contains a complete collection of Lenin's documents. For many decades, it was purposefully formed by the Soviet state; it included all Lenin’s documents. According to the director of RGASPI K.M. Anderson, all documents of the Lenin Foundation have been declassified and are available to researchers, since they do not contain state secrets. "Lenin's Directive of May 1, 1919" is absent in RGASPI (like all other “Instructions”). Only Lenin's medical history remains classified. All Lenin's documents in RGASPI are cataloged strictly by date. Among Lenin's papers dating back to May 1, 1919, there are no anti-religious ones - these are several resolutions of the Small Council of People's Commissars signed by him, and they all relate to minor economic issues. Missing “Lenin’s Directive of May 1, 1919” and in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, where the funds of the Council of People's Commissars and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee are stored. The Central Archive of the FSB of Russia and the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation gave a negative review of the presence of this “document” in their official letters. So, “Lenin’s Directive of May 1, 1919” is absent in all state and departmental archives of Russia relevant to this topic. Likewise, there was no secret “decision of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and Council of People’s Commissars” of 1917-1919. about the need to “put an end to priests and religion as quickly as possible,” in pursuance of which “Lenin’s Directive of May 1, 1919” as if it had been released. There are no “instructions of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD” with references to this “instruction”, there are no documents about its implementation.
- Political magazine, "Protocols of the Church Sages", http://www.politjournal.ru/index.php?action=Articles&issue=209&tek=7705&dirid=50

It is obvious that Latyshev was guided by the thesis attributed to Goebbels - “the more monstrous the lie, the more willingly they will believe it.”

As we can see, Mr. Latyshev was very indiscriminate in his methods. For him, the end clearly justifies the means. His task is to denigrate Lenin as a person, as a revolutionary. By all means, present Vladimir Ilyich as a psychopath thirsting for blood and possessing a pathological hatred of people. Latyshev formulated his task very clearly: “I will try to convincingly prove that in terms of his cruelty Lenin is no lower than Stalin or Hitler.”

You can find indications online that the creation and printing of the book was paid for from Yeltsin’s election fund. I fully admit this. The customer and the performer deserve each other.

The book did not go unnoticed; there were grateful readers. Quotes from Latyshev’s works are used by both adherents of the current government and our home-grown liberals. Well, of course, one cannot fail to mention probably the main admirer of Latyshev’s works, a full-time Duma showman, an artist of a hysterical genre, half-breed deputy Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky, who does not even bother reading primary sources and has been scribbling the same thing on paper for many years. Here is a fragment of the video of the debate between Zhirinovsky and Prokhanov. For the sake of curiosity, you can compare it with his speech two years ago.

On my own behalf, I can only add that his favorite quote, “The Russian person is a bad worker compared to the advanced nations,” reads in the original like this:

“The Russian person is a bad worker compared to the advanced nations. And this could not be otherwise under the regime of tsarism and the vivacity of the remnants of serfdom.”
V.I.Lenin, PSS, t.36

Of course, the liar and falsifier Latyshev is just a cog in a huge propaganda machine in the service of capitalism, the goal of which is to denigrate, destroy and prevent the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The victory of communism is an inevitable phenomenon, just as the collapse of the capitalist system, the system of exploiters, is inevitable. With the help of propaganda, including, not disdaining any methods, scoundrels like Latyshev are still in demand, the ways in which they act have now become smarter and more sophisticated. Now they are engaged not only in falsification, but also, hiding behind pseudo-communist slogans, they are leading the masses away from the revolutionary struggle.

Comrades, do not let yourself be deceived by bourgeois propaganda, study Marxist-Leninist teaching, unite. Join the Union of Communists. Together we will create a communist party from below!

Ildar Ilyasov