"Lenin will help tourism": communist madness in Ischia, they celebrate the Soviet dictator

The face of Vladimir Ilich Uljanov, famous (alas) as Lenin, father of the October Revolution that led to the creation of the Soviet Union and inspirer of numerous communist parties around the world, is set between the stones of a low wall complete with a commemorative plaque. Archaeological Museum of Villa Arbusto, Lacco Ameno, northwest side of Ischia.

It was 1910 when comrade Lenin, during a mini-cruise in the Gulf of Naples aboard the Tiffany ferry and in the company of the American heiress Cindy Morgan, landed on the island to spend three days at the Grand Hotel Salus between mud baths and thermal baths. And today, 115 years later, the municipal administration of Lacco Ameno (formally a civic association), together with the Iskra association (a Russian social democratic newspaper, whose foundation was decided in a clandestine meeting in the presence of Lenin himself), wanted to pay homage to the communist revolutionary for his stay in Ischia with an installation by the artist Paolo May.

The deputy mayor of the small town, Carla Tufano (with clear left-wing sympathies), explained: «We want to enhance the historical memory of the island that over the centuries has been a place of meetings, thought and reflection, and Lenin's passage testifies to the role of our territory in the great historical events of the twentieth century; furthermore, the enhancement of the island's history also represents an opportunity to promote quality cultural tourism capable of attracting visitors interested not only in the natural beauty but also in the historical richness of Ischia». We can already imagine tourists jostling to admire the effigy of Lenin, semi-bald, with a moustache and goatee, rather than enjoying the crystalline sea of ​​Ischia...

So, after the statue of Che Guevara in Carrara, the first in Italy (and hopefully the last), here is a nice tribute to the man who was, in order: responsible first for the Bolshevik coup and then for the civil war that overthrew the Constituent Assembly and caused something like ten million deaths; the mind of the Cheka, the political police that unleashed the “red terror” against political opponents: in four years, between crucifixions, impalements, hangings, burnings and flayings, hundreds of thousands of victims were counted; the creator of the gulags, the concentration camps where he himself confined tens of thousands of enemies (the deaths, under Stalin, were at least a million and a half); a self-confessed racist towards the Cossack minority of the Don and Kuban: he had a third of their population (about 500 thousand) exterminated because they were not at all willing to submit to the communist regime (talking about genocide is certainly not too much); starver of the people, given the five million Soviets who literally died of hunger due to the terrible famine of 1920-1921: the combination of the requisitions of grain from the peasants and the refusal of humanitarian aid offered by the United States was apocalyptic.

At the head of the celebratory sit-in of the ruthless and bloodthirsty dictator, who else could there be if not the militants of the Italian Marxist-Leninist Party, among flags with hammers and sickles and T-shirts with Lenin's face? And then students, professors, some workers, even a singer strumming. "Up to now, Lenin has been remembered annually by the Party in Cavriago (Reggio Emilia, ed.) and in Capri where there are two of his monuments, so we are particularly happy that this is also happening in Ischia by a united political and cultural association of political, cultural and social forces of the island", the communists exulted with closed fists to celebrate what they call "the great Master of the international proletariat".

Those of the Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore, on the other hand, disagree: «A municipal administration that “signs” a plaque in memory of Lenin, in my opinion, should truly be ashamed. I find it absurd, and in some ways appalling, that the initiative of the Pmli of Ischia was taken up by the administration».