VLFE - "Lenin"

VLADIMIR LENIN 

1) WILL ("king") 

2) LOGIC ("rhetorician") 

3) PHYSICS ("the underdog") 

4) EMOTION ("gawker") 

The order of Lenin's first two functions, their correlation, interaction, and forms of external manifestation are exhaustively characterized by the quotation book specially compiled for this occasion, which is placed below. Its peculiarity is that the authors of the memoirs, Lenin's friends and enemies, were surprisingly unanimous in describing his personality, and only by intonation can one guess who is who. 

"...he was a dictator in the best sense of the word." 

"Lenin's will surpassed his intellect, and the latter always acted as a servant of the former... Many critics accused Lenin of a strong lust for power and honors. In fact, he was simply organically designed to rule and literally could not refrain from imposing his will on others, not because he craved it, but because it was as natural for him as it is natural for a large body to influence the planets. As for honors, he did not like them... 

In his own way, Lenin loved those whom he valued as useful assistants. He easily forgave their mistakes, even infidelity... Malice and vindictiveness were alien to him. Even enemies were seen by him more as some abstract facts. Probably they could not excite in him a purely human interest, being simply mathematically defined points for the application of destructive forces. Purely passive opposition to his party at a critical moment was reason enough for him to shoot hundreds of people without a shadow of a doubt. And for all that, he liked to play with children, dogs, kittens, and kittens in a genuinely cheerful way." 

"No one like him could so infect with his plans, so impress with his will, so subdue with his personality, as this, at first sight, such an unassuming and gruff man, apparently without any data to be charming." 

"There was nothing of the superhuman in his outward appearance... And yet there was something in those steely eyes that grabbed my attention. In his questioning, half-preoccupied, half-smiling gaze was a boundless confidence in himself and his superiority. 

Later I came to have a great respect for his intellect, but at that moment I was more struck by the enormous strength of his will, his intransigence and impassivity. He was the exact opposite of Trotsky, who was also present at our meeting and was surprisingly silent. Trotsky was all temperament, he was an individualist and entertainer, on whose vanity even I could play, not without some success. There was something inhuman about Lenin's impassivity. His vanity could not be influenced by any flattery.

"I didn't like the man at all. First of all, he was terribly grumpy. Second of all, he didn't listen to anyone and wouldn't let anyone speak. 

"...Lenin always felt his audience. He never rose too high above its level, but only lowered himself to it in those moments when it was necessary in order not to break the continuity of the hypnotic state controlling the will of his flock. More than anyone, he was aware that the crowd demands to be chased and spurred, to feel the master's firm hand. When he had to, he spoke like a ruler, judging and prodding his audience. "He's not an orator-he's more than an orator," someone remarked, and that remark is quite appropriate." 

"But here he feels that the audience is not keeping up with him, that the connection with the listener has been severed. Then he immediately picks himself up, drops down in one leap, and begins his ascent anew, but with a calmer and more measured stride. His voice itself becomes different, freed from unnecessary tension, receives an enveloping persuasiveness...And when the speaker reaches the conclusion a second time, this time bringing the audience to it without losing anyone on the way, the audience physically feels that grateful joy, into which the satisfied tension of collective thought is resolved." 

"He argued exceptionally unpleasantly - arrogantly and contemptuously, covering his smoothly flowing speech with sarcastic and often rude antics toward his opponent. Outwardly he seemed perfectly calm, but his small Mongolian eyes became sharp and angry...Lenin did not belong to the number of people striking with power and originality of thought." 

Regarding the oratorical abilities of the combination of the 1st Will and the 2nd Logic, I can add to this that, for all the apparent appeal to the listener's reason, it is not the content that is the strongest side of speeches, but the form. Lenin's speech can be ambiguous, meaningless, empty, and yet fascinating, thanks to his exceptional, uncritical selfconfidence, faith in himself, a powerful will that invisibly filled his every word. The example of Gorbachev (obviously "Lenin"), who kept an audience of thousands of people in suspense for hours with his empty speeches, is expressive enough to imagine the magic of the "Leninist" word. The power of Gorbachev's verbiage reached the point of comedy and gave rise to jokes. For example: Gorbachev asked the famous hypnotist and psychotherapist Kashperovsky to come to his speech and stop it by hypnotic influence in case of speech incontinence. The result was the opposite of what was expected: Kashperovsky himself fell into a hypnotic trance. 

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Every Third Function is ambiguous. But Lenin's 3rd Physique, which combined unparalleled cruelty with maternal concern for the needs of others, exhibited such unparalleled bifurcation that it also provoked composing and produced cynical but accurate anecdotes. Here is one of them: 

- "Vladimir Ilyich, the participants of the Kronstadt rebellion have been arrested, what to do with them?" 

"-Firing squad! Before the execution, give tea to drink. And make sure it's hot!" 

This is an anecdote. And there are also similar legends, sometimes passed off as fact. For example, the legend that Lenin himself secretly sent his longtime enemy friend, Martov, abroad. And as if, when asked why he did this, the leader supposedly replied, "Because I am surrounded by people who are far more consistent Leninists than Lenin himself." This phrase one cannot help but believe. Lenin was supposed to be, by the 3rd Physique, the most pitiful of the Bolshevik upper class. And he was indeed surrounded by people with productive and therefore more violent Physicists: the 1st Physicists (Trotsky, Stalin, Zinoviev) and the 4th Physicists (Sverdlov, Dzerzhinsky, Pyatakov)-who, of course, would not let Martov out of their hands alive. 

In addition to anecdotes and legends, there are indisputable historical facts testifying to the striking bifurcation of Leninist Physics. For example, the famous portrait painter Yuri Annenkov said that when his father, a former revolutionary and insurance expert, received an offer to become a commissioner of social insurance, he refused and found himself ruined the next day: his bank account had been confiscated. The old man died of starvation in '20, and when this news reached Lenin, he gave his widow a decent pension for life. And so it was. 

In fact, it was Physics 3 that brought Lenin into the camp of Marxism; it was Lenin's typical sincere, unconscious compassion for all people of physical labor that made her choose this ideology. The mass shootings of workers after the Communist leader came to power were a derivative not of his Physique, but of his Will. Goethe's words fit Lenin even better than Napoleon: "Napoleon went in search of virtue, but since he could not find it, he took power. From Lenin's 3rd Physics comes also the equalizing distribution system which he introduced during the time of military communism: his laudable desire to support the weakest in his flawed 3rd Physics brought him to the point of absurdity. 

Contemporaries rarely mentioned Lenin's attitude to the physical, material layer of life, except to note the simplicity and unpretentiousness of his domestic needs. And this is understandable. It was his 3rd Physics that the leader of the world proletariat hid from prying eyes more diligently than anything else, and it was this, strangely enough, that played a decisive role in his fate. The fact is that if Goethe can be called the standard of a harmonious personality, the standard of a disharmonious personality should certainly be called Lenin. 

Fate gave Lenin nothing from its dimensionless stash in the line of Physics. More than unsightly in appearance, short, early bald, with gray skin and small Mongolian eyes, at age 40 he already looked old. All his life up to October 1917, Lenin lived on the condition of being a kept man: family, party sponsors, and Robin Hoods. Especially, I am sure, was Lenin's 3rd Physicist traumatized by the fact that he had not earned a single penny by physical labor all his life, i.e., in case his power collapsed at the state or party level, there were no internal resources to maintain a normal life. 

There was also little joy with women. They did not give Lenin what would have been the only impeccable proof of his manhood, of his physical wholeness - children. And Lenin could not boast of the number of women; three are reliably known: Krupskaya, Armand and that unnamed secretary whom Stalin, in a fit of rage, threatened to make the leader's widow instead of the obstinate Krupskaya. 

People who knew Lenin, who knew about his "fixation" on politics, spoke with a great deal of irony about the leader's sex. One of them wrote: "Lenin was deeply infatuated with, let us say, - in love with Inessa Armand - his companion in the Bolshevik Party. In love, of course, in his own way, i.e., probably a kiss between talking about the treachery of the Mensheviks and a resolution brandishing capitalist sharks and imperialism." In fact, Lenin's sex was not, and he was a passionate lover. Another thing is that, like any holder of the 1st Will and the 3rd Physique, he was afraid of the power that the woman lying next to him received, afraid of female nudity and beauty. An associate in exile said that a very beautiful woman was exiled with them, and, looking at her, Lenin murmured: "She is an ugly woman. She worries me. A terrible woman." 

At the same time, it seems that Lenin's hyper-sexuality did not make a very strong impression on women. I deduce this from the fact that the October Revolution took place after all. You may ask: what is the connection between sex and revolution? And in Lenin's case it is the most direct. If this Inessa Armand, languishing under Lenin's caresses, had murmured in a moment of loving languor: "Kotik, you are not an ordinary man, but you have no equal in THIS! - it is quite possible that the revolution would not have happened. Lenin would have rushed with redoubled energy to work on the magical for his psyche flattering characteristic of an exceptional lover, abandoning, at least for a while, the tired posture of the fighter against capitalism. But October came, and this event is the best proof of Lenin's unsatisfied sexual feeling and his insignificant feminine abilities. 

Even mentally, absentmindedly and for a moment in Lenin's skin, you feel the horror and ugliness of his situation. A man born with the third physics, an "untouchable," that is, destined by fate to be vulnerable and vulnerable to physicality, in addition to this misfortune, lives the life of an unsightly, weak-willed dependant, childless and sexually unsatisfied. Where does personal harmony and its derivatives - decency, benevolence, tolerance - come from, when fate has made a habit of constantly picking at the sore spot with a crowbar? Lenin simply had no other choice but to strengthen even more reliably the only support in life - the 1st Will, already hypertrophied by nature - with a maniacal insistence on the power that alone could protect the crushed 3rd Physique. 

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Lenin's contemporaries, deceived by his passion for politicking, were also mistaken about the leader's ability to experience. One of them wrote: "I cannot even imagine Lenin talking about poetry, painting, music, still less about love, about the complex spiritual experiences of man... His interest in man was completely alien to him. Communicating with him, I always felt that he was interested in me only insofar as he saw in me...a like-minded person who could be used for the revolutionary struggle...Lenin's coldness toward people was striking." 

This kind of statement is inaccurate, to say the least. Lenin cried at a performance of The Lady of the Camellias (and Physics 3 has a particularly avid interest in the psychology of prostitutes), listened to Beethoven with rapture, and only expressed regret that, contrary to his need for endless enjoyment of the Vienna composer's "inhuman" music, he had to engage in head-cutting. And in relation to people, Lenin was not always such a cynic and parasite, as he is described by his party comrades. The leader followed Inessa Armand's coffin with tear-stained face, reeling with grief, and in this case his feelings clearly outweighed the deceased's contribution to Party construction. So, even the "Leninist" heart is not a stone. 

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As a psychological type, "Lenin" is quite rare. It is rare even in a political environment, although politics is in "Lenin's" blood. In this regard, no one but Gorbachev comes to mind. However, the obvious difference in the personalities of Lenin and Gorbachev, gives reason to say a few words about the difference in the fate of people with psychotypic identity. 

There is no doubt that Gorbachev is a "Leninist. But the differences begin with the scale of the personality of Lenin and Gorbachev. The second, "Lenin" is a dwarf, incomparable in his parameters to the great first image: uneducated, uncultured and simply unintelligent. A stupid "Lenin" as an albino is rare, but Gorbachev happens to be one of these albinos. At the same time, fate was more favorable to Gorbachev than to Lenin. Gorbachev had time to try himself as a physical laborer, knew the joys of fatherhood, his way up was not obstructed by anything fatally insurmountable, was clear and simple from the beginning, which cannot be said about Lenin. 

Apparently, all these circumstances determined the comparative softness of Gorbachev to Lenin in the critical moments for the government. Like any "prude" with an aversion and squeamishness to violence, Gorby, organizing bloody massacres in the Baltics and the Caucasus, at the sight of the first blood, took his hands off and pretended as if he had nothing to do with it. Such duplicity in the capital for the government on the issue of violence, lulled Gorbachev's entourage into thinking, not without some reason, that the president of the USSR was a weak politician. And when the head of the entourage begins to visit such thoughts, the death of the leader, biological or only political, becomes a matter of time. Which is what happened in August 1991. Subsequent efforts to regain at least some of his former influence have become a political cadaver dance. But that is another story. 

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Speaking of "Lenin" as a type in his purely outward expression, we can say that it is usually: a lean, not to say unattractive, but clearly not sexy man with a pale oval face. The gaze is persistent, attentive, thoughtful, not without slyness and irony, but without a spark. Speech and gesture are free. Neatness and focus in everything: clothing, haircut, makeup. Complete concentration in his behavior and daily routine; the only thing that can knock him out of his established routine is the chance for sexual adventures. But the most obvious and irreproachable mark of the "Lenin" is a terrible grumpiness - an argument with him is absolutely hopeless.