Lenin stated that his policies caused massacres and Russia needed St Francis of Assisi
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Historical discussions and secondhand accounts record an anecdote attributing to Lenin the statement that his policies caused massacres and Russia needed St. Francis of Assisi, though definitive proof is lacking.
The evidence for this being true is a reprinting of a story from someone who heard it secondhand from the Hungarian priest who allegedly was there. It's not definite proof, but it's more credible than "the internet said so". The first time this story was printed may have been in The Catholic Boy , October 1938: "a magazine published by the Holy Cross Fathers at Notre Dame, Indiana" . But I can't find it online, so I have the next best thing: a magazine, Catholic Digest , that I can only see through snippet view on Google Books that cites The Catholic Boy as its source. Allegedly this issue of Catholic Digest is from 1939. It says: A story is told by Father Michael D'Herbigny, S.J. , who gives it on the authority of a priest who was a former friend of Lenin and who was with him shortly before his death. Father D'Herbigny is a renowned scholar and carefully weighs any statement before it i
Frau A L Mo Frau R F Ind Von Prof J M DUEHRBN perl 1917 Wnffay MM Pitts burgh 3 Pa F R A Äenobn v As you seem to prefer an answer in English we reprint the last words of the Communist Lenin in English Lenin who believed in taxes as a handy tool to impose Socialist revolution said I have made a great mistake Our main purpose was to give freedom to a multitude of oppressed people But our method of action created more evils and horrible and terrible mas sacres You know my deadly night mare is this ocean of blood coming from innocent innumerable vic tims It is too late to back down now but in order to save our coun try Russia we should have had a man like St Francis of Assisi Isnt thisfwonderful Back Your Futur vir AVINGS BONDS 128 EAST TENTH STREET THE CASE OF Dr Fangauer though taking issue with many if not most of Miss Graefs facts does not claim that his Is the last word on the strange happenings at Konnersreuth He neither anticipates the Churchs judgment about Konnersreuth nor in any way sug gests belief in Therese Neumann
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