#OTD in 1870 notable counter-revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was born. Lenin went on to lead a coup which seized power from the Soviets. He is also known for ordering the massacre of sex workers in 1918 and telling British communists to offer electoral support to the Labour Party.

"Without big banks socialism would be impossible of realisation. The big banks are a & #39;stable apparatus& #39; we need for the realisation of socialism and which we shall take from capitalism ready made." - Lenin, October 1st, 1917 https://libcom.org/library/the-bolsheviks-and-workers-control-solidarity-group">https://libcom.org/library/t...

"You must strain every effort, appoint three men with dictatorial powers (yourself, Markin, one other), organise immediately mass terror, shoot and deport the hundreds of prostitutes who are making drunkards of the soldiers, former officers and the like." https://libcom.org/library/lenin-orders-massacre-prostitutes-1918">https://libcom.org/library/l...

"The communist party in Britain was instructed to offer an electoral alliance to the Labour Party... in order to "help the masses of the workers to see the results" of a Labour Government." https://libcom.org/library/open-letter-to-comrade-lenin-gorter">https://libcom.org/library/o...