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The UN's Leninist legacy.(Insider Report)
Speaking in 1970, former UN Secretary-General U Thant praised founding Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin and pointedly claimed that Lenin's ruling philosophy was "in line with the aims of the UN Charter." One of Lenin's most important concepts was "democratic centralism," that is, the notion that the ruling Soviet elite embodied the democratic will of its subject population, and thus whatever it did was legitimate. In his Foreign Affairs essay (see story above), Tharoor unconsciously acknowledges the UN's Leninist legacy.
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Source: HighBeam Research, The UN's Leninist legacy.(Insider Report)