I think - and someone correct me if I'm wrong - but the idea is that Lenin, himself, saw it as "bourgeois democracy" and rejected it entirely.
And I kind of have to agree that having a person who is like Lenin in name only just to have Lenin as a character makes about as much sense as having Vespucci to allow me to be lazy about the name of the contintent/s of the New World in my medieval-POD TL.
Maybe more, but not that much more. It won't be a real world character, it'll be someone who shares the same name.
And speaking as a writer, I do not see the point. The whole idea of an alternate world is that it is just that. Familiar places will be different. People we know from OTL will not show up in TTL and vice-versa.
I don't know or much care if it skewers his legacy, but it doesn't add anything and doesn't make enough sense to be accepted on the grounds of being "familiar".
And I kind of have to agree that having a person who is like Lenin in name only just to have Lenin as a character makes about as much sense as having Vespucci to allow me to be lazy about the name of the contintent/s of the New World in my medieval-POD TL.
Maybe more, but not that much more. It won't be a real world character, it'll be someone who shares the same name.
And speaking as a writer, I do not see the point. The whole idea of an alternate world is that it is just that. Familiar places will be different. People we know from OTL will not show up in TTL and vice-versa.
I don't know or much care if it skewers his legacy, but it doesn't add anything and doesn't make enough sense to be accepted on the grounds of being "familiar".