Sigh! I am mentioning the bad things, aren't I ?
I just want to encourage that this person is trying to think for himself.

Where better to ask opinions about Lenin than in a Russian forum? The American view of Lenin is pretty much 100% dark, I think. It's well known what the US feels about communism.

So; he's already heard "your" side of the story, that Lenin was an evil mass murderer.

There may be someone here who feels that Lenin was a fantastic person who did only good. I don't. But I think he had many good intentions and that some of the things that he did were good.

If this is a troll question, which I am beginning to think that it might be, then I regret spending 15 minutes of my weekend on it.