It’s more complicated :-D Like in French, most Russian nouns have masculine or feminine gender and IIRC in the original Russian the cook was specifically a female cook. And Lenin, sigh, was a cishet white male.
If https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin is to be believed then it’s more complicated still because what Lenin actually said was exactly the opposite.
A meme necessarily looks better than the actual source :-/
It’s more complicated :-D Like in French, most Russian nouns have masculine or feminine gender and IIRC in the original Russian the cook was specifically a female cook. And Lenin, sigh, was a cishet white male.
If https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin is to be believed then it’s more complicated still because what Lenin actually said was exactly the opposite.
A meme necessarily looks better than the actual source :-/