Vladimir Lenin

"It's hip-hop chowder, red over white!"

- Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin was a rapper in Epic Rap Battles of History 33, battling Grigori Rasputin, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Vladimir Putin (though Gorbachev and Putin appeared afterwards). He was played by Nice Peter.

Information on the Rapper
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Илыич Ленин, né Ulyanov (Улъянов)) (April 22, 1870 – January 21, 1924) was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death. Politically a Marxist, his theoretical contributions to Marxist thought are known as Leninism, which coupled with Marxian economic theory have collectively come to be known as Marxism–Leninism.

As the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, he took a senior role in orchestrating the October Revolution in 1917, which led to the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government and the establishment of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. Immediately afterwards, Lenin proceeded to implement socialist reforms, including the transfer of estates and crown lands to workers' soviets. Faced with the threat of German invasion, he argued that Russia should immediately sign a peace treaty—which led to Russia's exit from the First World War. In 1921 Lenin proposed the New Economic Policy, a system of state capitalism that started the process of industrialisation and recovery from the Russian Civil War. In 1922, the Russian SFSR joined former territories of the Russian Empire in becoming the Soviet Union, with Lenin as its leader. The Bolshevik faction later became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which acted as a vanguard party presiding over a single-party dictatorship of the proletariat.

Lyrics


I have no pride for you who ruined everything

My revolution was doing to stop the bourgeoisie!

I fought the bondage of classes. The proletariat masses

Have brought me here to spit a thesis against both of your asses!

Let me start with you there, Frankenstein!

Looking like something out of R.L. Stine.

It's hip-hop chowder, red over white,

Cause the Tsar's wife can't do shit tonight!

And Joseph, you were supposed to be my right-hand man,

But your loyalty shriveled up like your right hand, man!

Our whole future was bright, you let your heart grow dark,

And stopped the greatest revolution since the birth of Marx!

Trivia

 * He is the first character to be filmed in a different color system (other than Black and White, Sepia, or Color).
 * This is because of his election posters always being in white and red.
 * At the end when all the rap battles of season 2 come on, he is seen in normal color and not red and white, dancing with the other ERB 33 participants.