For the Bolshevik leader, the ends justified his means. But if you asked any Russian in 1917, the answer was yes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/opinion/was-lenin-a-german-agent.html
https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2017/06/19/72846-istoriya-kak-uteshenie
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=594766F1BBE1E
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3311962
Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi have led efforts to not merely whitewash two of the world's most notorious mass murders, but indeed to vindicate and resurrect them as national heroes.
https://zn.ua/internal/voennaya-pomosch-ssha-novyy-podhod-trampa-251735_.html
https://lenta.ru/articles/2017/06/17/na_palochku_nadet/
https://politeka.net/449028-nikolay-sungurovskiy-seychas-uzhe-pozdno-zakanchivat-ato/