Announcer: On the podium - Lenin. He stood holding the edges of the podium, squinted his eyes at the audience and waited, apparently not noticing the growing applause. A short stocky figure with a large, bald and bulging, firmly planted head. Simple, loved and respected the way few leaders in history have been loved and respected. An extraordinary people's leader, a leader solely because of his intellect, alien to any kind of ricochet, impervious to moods, firm, unyielding, without spectacular biases, but with a powerful ability to reveal the most complex ideas in the simplest words.
V.I. Lenin: What is Soviet power? What is the essence of this new power, which most countries do not want or cannot yet understand? Its essence, which attracts the workers of every country more and more, is that before the state was ruled in one way or another by the rich or capitalists, but now for the first time the state is ruled, and in mass numbers, by the classes that capitalism oppressed. Even in the most democratic, even in the freest republic, as long as the domination of capital remains, as long as land remains privately owned, the state is always ruled by a small minority, nine-tenths of the capitalists or the rich.
Announcer: Lenin spoke with his mouth wide open and as if smiling. His voice was hoarse, not unpleasant, but as if it had been acquired through years of habitual speaking. And it sounded so smooth that it seemed as if it could go on without end. In order to emphasize his thought, Lenin leaned forward slightly. Thousands of ordinary faces tensely looked at him.
V.I. Lenin: For the first time in the world, the state has been built in Russia in such a way that only the workers, only the working peasants, excluding the exploiters, constitute mass organizations - the Soviets, and to these Soviets all state power is transferred. That is why, no matter how much the representatives of the bourgeoisie in all countries slander Russia, everywhere in the world the word "Soviet" has become not only understandable, it has become popular, it has become the favorite word for the workers, for all workers. And that is why Soviet power, whatever the persecution of the supporters of communism in different countries, Soviet power will inevitably, inevitably and in the not too distant future win the whole world.
We know very well that we still have many shortcomings in the organization of Soviet power. Soviet power is not a miraculous talisman. It does not immediately cure the defects of the past, illiteracy, unculturedness, the legacy of savage war, the legacy of robber capitalism. But it gives us the opportunity to move to socialism. It makes it possible for those who have been oppressed to rise up and take more and more into their own hands the entire management of the state, the entire management of the economy, the entire management of production.
Soviet power is the way to socialism, found by the masses of working people and therefore it is true and therefore invincible.
Announcer: His words reeked of calm and strength that penetrated deeply into people's souls. It was quite clear why the people always believed what Lenin said.