100th birthday of Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1970 - 10 Pfennig

100th Birthday of W. I. Lenin On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wiadimir Ilyich Lenin, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes five multi-color special postage stamps and one multi-colored special postage stamp block. W. I. LENIN The immortal genius of our era Advanced humanity commemorates the 100th birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1970 as a historical date of international importance. The name of Lenin is inseparably connected with the entire history of our epoch and as immortal as his ideas and deeds. In Lenin the world revered the ingenious leader and teacher of the working people, the flaming revolutionary, outstanding scientist and statesman, the creator of the first proletarian fighting party of the new type and the builder of the first socialist state in the world - a personality of whom the poet Johannes R. Becher wrote: "The light of freedom has brought Lenin, The light of knowledge has kindled Lenin, The light of truth has given Lenin, Such light makes life worth living, It has given the light of life to us." if it thinks of Lenin. " Vladimir Ilyich Lenin answered all the fundamental questions that arose with the development of the revolutionary movement in our century. He continued the work of Marx and Engels and enriched all elements of Marxism - philosophy, political economy and scientific communism - with new insights. His fundamental theoretical works and his successful practical political activity were and are instructions for action for millions of working people on every continent. Under the influence of Leninism, 20th-century Marxism, generations of revolutionaries grew. Lenin's doctrines of the role of the party of the new type, of the socialist revolution, the dictatorship of the proletariat and the alliance of the working class with the peasantry and all working people, became a compass and a weapon in the struggle for peace, democracy and socialism. Lenin and the "Iskra" (10 Pfennig value) Since about 1895, Lenin was concerned with the idea of ​​overcoming the fragmentation of the Russian labor movement with the help of a Marxist newspaper; and immediately after his return from the Siberian exile in Shushenskoye in early 1900, he began to work on the realization of this plan. In Russia, however, the publication of such a leaf, which was to bear the name "Iskra" (The Spark), was impossible under the prevailing circumstances; it had to appear abroad. After his emigration in July 1900, Lenin therefore set up the editorial office in Munich, while on Leipzig the choice as a printing place fell. Here German socialists could procure inconspicuously Russian letters, and thus developed from December 1901 to 1901 in the printing house of Hermann Rauh in the Leipziger Russenstrasse 48, where today is a Lenin memorial, the first four numbers of "Iskra", the subsequently went to Russia on various illegal routes. The stamp shows a portrait of a Lenin portrait of a photograph from the time when the first "lskra" appeared, the newspaper's head and setter's desk, and the press on which it was printed. The series of stamps by which the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the GDR honored Lenin on the occasion of his 100th birthday honors in particular his close relations with the German workers' movement and the influence of his work and the honoring of his personality in the first German workers' and peasants' Country.