"Clear evidence has been offered of Lenin's extremist and terrorist views before and after the October Revolution," said Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Church's foreign relations director.
"The Church hopes a Russian investigative committee will soon, on the basis of these arguments, give a legal assessment of the statements and acts by this ‘leader of the revolution' whose policies cost the Russian people so dearly."
The 46-year-old metropolitan was reacting to an initiative by the autonomous Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.