Has this been verified or am I being memed on?

>>2670006
I'm guessing that's a mistranslation. Russian literacy was pretty low by European standards pre-WWI, and I'm guessing that Lenin was referencing literacy more broadly.

>>2670006
>Has this been verified

Well, your only citation is Richard Pipes, who says that he was told so by Jay Lovestone. Jay Lovestone is dead, as is Lenin, and the story is entirely anecdotal.

So unless you want to interrogate Richard Pipes to find out whether Jay Lovestone really told him that anecdotal story that may or may not be true, good luck comrade.

>>2670006
>3 by 5 cards
can someone explain this phrase for non-anglos?

>>2670645
They're a little piece of softer cardboard, made to the dimensions of 3 inches by 5 inches. (Roughly 7.5cm by 12.5 cm). They're mostly used for indexing things, or jotting down quick notes to remember later.

>>2670669
Are they the same thing as flashcards?

>>2670675
Yeah, pretty much

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>>2670645
>>2670675
Does this help?

I would assume he meant that Russians couldn't fucking read. Of course literacy rates shot through the roof under the communists.