Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya repeatedly noticed that Lenin, who became the head of the Soviet government after the October Revolution, somehow diligently (if not to say, fawning) bowed on the street to the oncoming workers and peasants. And sometimes he would talk to them and ask them about the political situation. Once the habit of communication played an unpleasant joke with Lenin.

We are ours, we will build a new world

In fact, judging by Soviet films, especially often Lenin communicated with the people until October 25, and then, after the seizure of power, such a need disappeared. For Ilyich, the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission began to engage in "sociological surveys". Intimate conversations with the "walkers" over a cup of carrot tea were replaced by interrogations in the "ChKov" dungeons. And inthee-sti, coming from there to the Kremlin, were, as a rule, disappointing.

People complained about disenfranchisement and poverty. But back in 1913, Russia showed high rates of economic development, and even the poor did not die of hunger - everyone had enough at least for bread and salt. Now, after the Bolshevik triumph, the standard of living of the people has fallen sharply. Once Ilyich himself was able to make sure that his "beloved peasants", to whom he gave land and freedom, treat his party, to put it mildly, with great skepticism. It was on a car trip.

An unpleasant conversation

From the former estate of the Moscow mayor in Gorki, Lenin once went hunting. He rides in a luxury car on a picturesque road and sees peasant women picking mushrooms, asks the driver to stop and kindly asks the citizen closest to him:

"Are there mushrooms?"

A woman, unaware of who she is dealing with, simply replies to the leader of the world proletariat the first thing that comes to mind:

"No, Father, as the Communists appeared, so the mushrooms disappeared through the ground."

Lenin patted his eyes in response to this statement, sat on a soft spring seat and fell resentfully silent. And then, returning to Gorki, he went to the rooms and lamented that, they say, what a dark people around: after all, if there are no mushrooms, then put at least a king, they still will not grow.

P.S.

And here Lenin, of course, was right - mushrooms do not care who runs the country. And the Communists, of course, mushrooms were not forbidden to grow. But still the head of the Council of People's Commissars was disingenuous, offended by peasant women. With their "war communism", "deployments" and "food detachments" they left the peasant without bread. The abolition of the market created conditions for a total deficit. Only with the introduction of NEP in stores appeared products. But nep, as you know, was considered by the Communists to be a retreat back, and when they abandoned it, such a phenomenon as the "Holodomor" appeared.

So in the sense of the philosophy of life, illiterate peasant women near Moscow understood more than Ilyich and saw a direct connection between communism and the absence of a pohlebka on the table.