Lenin was a childhood idol of mine. Source: TIME Magazine Some thoughts and recollections on the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. During my Upper Primary and High School years, I was an unabashed communist, though I was, and still am reluctant to admit it. I was not associated with the “Party” in any capacity whatsoever, but I am still immensely ashamed of my naivete. Looking back, if I had paid enough attention to what I was reading, I could have figured out how