You are kidding about #8 right? I know its opinions but to put idiots like Lenin in the same list like Ghandi, Kennedy and Adenauer is an insult.

To quote Reagan:
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. [/b][/quote]Communism is IMO one of the best ideas ever. It starts from the idea "every human is equal like the other".
But, it can only exist with the goodwill of people, all people must have the same "every human is equal like the other"-idea.
In reality, communism doesn't work, for various reasons, but also because not all people have that goodwill I mentioned.

Now, Lenin was the first to actually make that beautyful idea of Marx reality. He tried, but of course it didn't work and the SU became a dictatorship, in which there was a very strong state (sort of an extreme socialism) instead of no state , which is the goal of real communism.

So Lenin unintentionally made us realize that real communism can never exist, en he also showed (together with Stalin) that when trying to make communism, you always end up in a dictatorship.

That's why I think he was one of the greatest world-leaders, and of course because of his noble goals.