May 2, 2022:
The great revolutionaries were always laughing. They took joy in the everyday, as they relished the struggle.
There's a falsifiction that Lenin was a dour fellow, all business all the time. Not true. In private photos he's continually busting up, even near the end during his illness. Balabanoff and Tamara Deutscher mention his ubiquitous exuberant laughter: like the Dalai Lama, joyful warrior for Life. That they would have rejected that language makes me love them even more.