Vladimir Putin has explained why he believes that Vladimir Lenin was the one who had planted a powerful bomb under the basement of the country’s statehood

Putin explains his remarks about Vladimir Lenin

"In contrast to many functionaries I did not throw my membership card away or burn it in public. I still keep it at home."

Earlier, Putin said Lenin had "planted an atom bomb under the building called Russia and that bomb went off a while later"


Russian President Vladimir Putin has explained why he believes that Vladimir Lenin was the one who had planted a powerful bomb under the basement of the country’s statehood. 

Speaking at an inter-regional forum of the All-Russia People’s Front Putin recalled that Lenin had a fundamental discussion with Stalin over the principles a future state should rest upon. 

Stalin’s ideas were rejected and the country was built on ideas implying the possibility of secession of constituent territories. "That right [to secession] was the delayed action mine planted under our statehood. 

This is what caused the country’s eventual breakup," Putin said. 

Putin cautious over future of Lenin's body Earlier, Putin at a meeting of the presidential council on science and education dropped a rather caustic remark addressed to Lenin. 

He said Lenin had "planted an atom bomb under the building called Russia and that bomb went off a while later." 

Putin said that he himself had been a member of the Communist Party and an officer of the Soviet security service, the KGB, which some propagandists used to refer to as an armed outpost of the Communist Party. He said he had joined the Communist party not because it was a must.

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