Bertrand Russell: “When I met Lenin [in 1920] I had much less impression of a great man than I had expected; my most vivid impressions were of bigotry and Monoglian cruelty. When I put a question to him about socialism in agriculture, he explained with glee how he had incited the poorer peasants against the richer ones, ‘and they soon hanged them from the nearest ree–ha! ha! ha!’ His guffaw at the thought of those massacred made my blood run cold.”