iddish was intended to serve as the bedrock of a non-religious, Soviet Jewish culture and community. The Kremlin believed that the use of Yiddish as the national secular language of the Jews would make the Jewish Autonomous Region the new center of Soviet Jewish life.	The Yiddish text reads: VLADIMIR ILICH LENIN Lenin is our leader, Our teacher, our friend, We do as Lenin teaches us, All working people know and love Lenin.