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Elessar · 26-30, M
@soar2newhighs Literally the first thing you find concerning the truthfulness of that quote:
While more can always be said, and it’s hard to prove a negative, there’s no evidence of this list published before 1946. It seems to have been published in the UK then made its way into American right wing circles like the John Birch Society in the 1960s. It’s a pretty common way of attacking enemies: make the qualities of the thing you oppose (modern liberal society) conflated with those of a group already unpopular (Soviets). But your instincts that is too on the nose seem right, there’s nothing evidence Lenin ever said this and it’s a popular late twentieth century chain message.
Source: Boller. Paul F., Jr., and John George. They Never Said It. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989 (p. 114-116).
TL;DR: It's old school right-wing crap propaganda but still right-wing crap propaganda it is.
While more can always be said, and it’s hard to prove a negative, there’s no evidence of this list published before 1946. It seems to have been published in the UK then made its way into American right wing circles like the John Birch Society in the 1960s. It’s a pretty common way of attacking enemies: make the qualities of the thing you oppose (modern liberal society) conflated with those of a group already unpopular (Soviets). But your instincts that is too on the nose seem right, there’s nothing evidence Lenin ever said this and it’s a popular late twentieth century chain message.
Source: Boller. Paul F., Jr., and John George. They Never Said It. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989 (p. 114-116).
TL;DR: It's old school right-wing crap propaganda but still right-wing crap propaganda it is.