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Originally Posted by strelnik
It's rare to see quotes like this one in the typical signatory text:
"Партия и положение принесут зажиточность и электричество к провинциям"
For those of you who don't know, it's Lenin's promise that electricity and party positions (i.e. organization) will bring both electricity and prosperity to the the provinces, i.e. what would later be the 14 socialist republics and independent/autonomous regions, called krai and oblasti, respectively, following the 1918 Bolshevik revolution.
In reality Lenin was the greatest "green" thinker of his time, the idea being to create free electricity from hydro dams to power the country's economy. Too bad it got hosed up later by Stalin and Co.
I am surprised anyone ever reads stuiff like this besides me, lol.
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I studied Lenin quite a bit as a philosphy student. He is a legitimate intellectual, philosopher and statesman, not just a socialist.
As for the cold weather, I find once its at true 0 degrees F, my 84 300D will start fine, idle fine, but will run badly because the fuel is just too damn stiff. It sort of struggles at 1500 RPM and over. I let the tank go below 1/4 and it sat for a few days at 0 to 5 degrees. It started after some cranking, but I drove it around the block several times and it just plodded along and would nearly die at points. Keeping a full tank in cold weather seems like a good idea.