Joseph V. Stalin -
Speech Delivered at a Memorial Meeting of the Kremlin Military School.
January 28, 1924.
First Published on Pravda, No. 34,
February 12, 1924.
Source: Works, Vol. 6, January-November, 1924, pp. 54-66, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954.
Reproduced from Marxists Internet Archives.
Comrades,
I am told that you have arranged a Lenin memorial meeting here this
evening and that I have been invited as one of the speakers. I do not
think there is any need for me to deliver a set speech on Lenin’s
activities. It would be better, I think, to confine myself to a few
facts to bring out certain of Lenin’s characteristics as a man and
a leader. There may, perhaps, be no inherent connection between these
facts, but that is not of vital importance as far as gaining a
general idea of Lenin is concerned. At any rate, I am unable on this
occasion to do more than what I have just promised.