Lenin and the far-Left

What is it about the far-left and dictators? The Times recently reported that in Montpellier, France, the Regional Leader. Mr Georges Freche (who describes himself as a Socialist, has commissioned a large Statue of Lenin and place the one-tonne sculpture in the city's centre.

Ignoring the fact that Lenin had nothing to do with the French City, Mr Freche described the Soviet Dictator as "one of the great men of the twentieth century" .

It seems quite extraordinary that leftists such as Mr Freche can venerate Lenin, a man who murdered millions, set up the gulags and began the Soviet Dictatorship.
How is that Communist tyranny is something to be celebrated by the far left - in marked contrast to the other tyrannies that have stalked the world?

By Robert Halfon