Looking for a Lenin quote

[Cheese Guevara]

I'm looking for a quote by Lenin. In this quote, Lenin essentially says that revolutionary leaders, heroes or freedom fighters will be initially opposed, killed, but then slowly embraced by the state, who will exalt the figure as a "hero", whilst covering up the more radical or revoutionary messages or beliefs of the "hero".

Any thanks would be appreciated.

[Aurora]

Bold mine, hope it's what your looking for.

What is now happening to Marx's theory has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the theories of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes fighting for emancipation. During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don't laugh!). And more and more frequently German bourgeois scholars, only yesterday specialists in the annihilation of Marxism, are speaking of the “national-German” Marx, who, they claim, educated the labor unions which are so splendidly organized for the purpose of waging a predatory war!
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm

[Cheese Guevara]

Aurora, thank you very very much. You have been a huge help.