Comparing Mandela to Lenin is somewhat disingenuous and certainly an insult to Mandela. Lenin was as bad as Stalin when it came to eliminating anyone who opposed him. The White Terror, Lenin's Hanging Order and his use of the Russian famine of 1921 as a political tool among many other abominations.

 "We are the masters. Complete indifference to suffering is our duty. The greatest cruelty is a merit. Through a systematic terror every lie shall be lawful. We will find a way to abase humanity down to the lowest level of existence. We must combat religion. Down with religion. Long live atheism. The spread of atheism is our task. Communism abolishes eternal truths."

Lenin's words, not Mandela's