(September 7, 2012 at 1:04 pm)Chuck Wrote: Lenin seems to be of mixed tartar, not Jewish, descent on both sides of his parentage. It seemed to have been fashionable during early years of the Soviet Union for White Russian forces fighting against Bolsheviks to exploit antisemitism bequeathed by the Czarist regime by claiming all Bolsheviks were Jews when in fact by far the majority weren't.To be exact his father was either Kalmyk or Tatar. On his mother's side, his grandfather was russian-jewish and his grandmother was german
To be flippant, Lenin was biologically more related to Genghis Khan than to Abraham.
He was raised christian, but when his mother died, he became an atheist at 16.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
