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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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Lenin's cruel methods are the first instance of Communist sav-
agery. Stalin and Mao, the dictators who came after him, only increased
the scope of the horror.
Lenin's own death is quite telling. He suffered his first stroke in
May 1922. On December 16, 1922, he suffered another major attack. Half
paralyzed, he was confined to bed. In March of 1923, his illness wors-
ened significantly and he lost the ability to speak. Afflicted by terrible
headaches, he spent most of 1923 in a wheelchair. In the final months of
his life, those who saw him were horrified at the frightful, half-mad ex-
pression on his face. He died of a brain hemorrhage on January 21, 1924.
The Bolsheviks mummified Lenin's body and specially preserved
his brain, which they considered to have great value. They placed his
body in a tomb, built in the style of a Greek temple, in Moscow's Red
Square, where it was visited by crowds of people. Lines of visitors
would look at the corpse in dread.
Their dread was to increase in years to come. Joseph Stalin, Lenin's
successor, was even more cruel and sadistic. In a short time, he estab-
lished the greatest "reign of terror" in modern history.

How Did Stalin Become a Communist?

Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born in 1879, in a poor fam-
ily in Gori, a small town near Tbilisi in Georgia. He began to use the
name of Stalin, which means "man of steel" in Russian, after 1913.
His mother was a religious woman. She used all her strength to rear
her son to be a priest, so she enrolled him in a church school in Gori. He
graduated after five years there, and entered the seminary in Tblisi to
begin his studies to become a priest of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
During this period, however, Stalin read a few books that changed
his world view. Up to then, he had been the devout son of a religious
mother, but he lost his faith in God and religion and became an atheist
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after reading Darwin's The Origin of Species.
In his book, Stalin and the Shaping of the Soviet Union, the Oxford
University historian Alex de Jonge shows Darwin's vital role in shaping
Stalin's youthful outlook. According to Jonge, he was "a theological stu-