The inheritor and realizor of the Communist idea, Lenin, implemented and thereby caused the intellect to regress to the domains of revenge when he on 2 January 1902 declared the principles behind the dictatorship of the proletariat in the Pravda: "The bourgeoisie are compelled to be hypocritical and to describe as popular government or democracy in general, or pure democracy, the (bourgeois) democratic republic which is, in practice, the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie,
This system survived for 75 years before the walls came tumbling down on a population which had dramatically been outdistanced by their immediate neighbors. Of the moving sentimentality which Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels depicted the ideal society remained, a land of economic, political, military and environmental ruin only, including an abundance of freedom-thirsting ethnic groups. Hate and distrust had brought destitution to the individual.
Historically, man can learn from the Communist experiment that a successful social concept is built on creative goodness and openness.