Born in 1870 (O.S.) –Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik communist party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union.

“Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions. But every voluntary association (including the party) is also free to expel members who use the name of the party to advocate anti-party views…The party is a voluntary association, which would inevitably break up, first ideologically and then physically, if it did not cleanse itself of people advocating anti-party views.”