The way the deaths of freedom fighters is turned against them by propagandists makes me sick. Truly evil to not only savagely colonize a group of people, but also bastardize their brave fighters and distort their words to say the opposite of what their lives and struggles for justice spoke for.

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

• Lenin