100th birthday of Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1970 - 20 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 Clara Zetkin (20 Pfennig value) Clara Zetkin, the co-founder and leader of the German and international socialist women's movement, had already supported Lenin in the publication of the first numbers of "Iskra". The first personal acquaintance with him then came in 1902 in Munich. Since then, both met several times at the congresses of the II International. When an international socialist women's conference against the war took place in Berne in March 1915, Clara Zetkin was one of the organizers, while Lenin prepared a Bolshevik draft resolution for this session. She herself reported in her "Memoirs to Lenin" on the sometimes exhaustive conversations that Clara Zetkin conducted with Lenin in Moscow in the years 1920, 1921 and 1922, above all on questions of socialist cultural policy and the international women's movement. "The harmonious convergence of the greatness of the leader and the human being," she wrote, "shaped Lenin's character and entrenched him forever in the great heart of the world proletariat." The series of stamps with which the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of the GDR WI In honor of Lenin's 100th birthday, he particularly acknowledges 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 state.