Johannesburg, Oct. 4 (ANI): One of Russia's most powerful and liberal ministers has revealed that Russia is still following decrees that were signed by Communist Party founder, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin almost a century ago, adding that he lacked the 'heart to annul decisions' issued by the former leader.
Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said that he lacked the courage to simply scratch out Lenin's name from his country's history.
"I could not lift my hand to annul this document. Cancelling something signed by Lenin would be blasphemous," RIA Novosti quoted Dvorkovich, as saying during a Moscow investment conference.
Dvorkovich said that he often came across government decrees from the years between the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the 1930s reign of dictator Stalin.
"It still operates to this day while obviously contradicting many other state decisions," he added in reference to an arcane document that covered the operation of tiny electric power generators no longer in use today.
Dvorkovich, who is in charge of privatisation and Russia's vital energy sector, said that the current legislation in Russia often referenced documents originally adopted in a different era, and those themselves cited material initially put in place by Lenin when he ran the new Soviet state, the report said. (ANI)
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