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.

the USSR’s Joseph Stalin, current Russian President Vladimir Putin, and former chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao ...

"Now grateful descendants have demolished monuments to Lenin ... Putin added. According to Putin, "nobody asked millions of people about anything.". "Then, before and after the Great Patriotic War ...

Political observers here believe that Stalin, minister of nationalities, will succeed Lenin, although all admit that none can really fill the place of the governing mind of the revolution.