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What did Vladimir Lenin really think of Joseph Stalin? Explore the critical letters, personal doubts, and final political ...
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IDEAS 100 years after Lenin’s death, his curse still grips Russia The founder of the Soviet Union died in 1924, but his embalmed body remains on display in a country that doesn’t know how to ...
In March, Moscow police caught an unhinged man who allegedly tried to enter the Bolshevik firebrand’s mausoleum while ranting that “Vladimir Lenin had to allegedly absolve him of his sins ...
A long-standing monument to Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin lost face after Ukrainian forces pushed into the area. The silver monument in the town of Sudzha, which depicts Lenin standing with ...
So, let’s talk about Lenin. More accurately, the 16-foot tall, bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, where I’ve lived since 2013.
In 1970, the Soviet Union and its satellites pulled out all the stops to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the country and self-styled savior of the working ...
Vladimir Lenin. SK: Why did you put a five year timetable on it when you first got here? MP: You know, it was based on the Five Year Plan of Vladimir Lenin.
More than 1,300 statues of Lenin have come down in Ukraine under its “decommunization” law, leaving authorities to figure out how to fill the voids in city squares and town centers.
An 18-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin was taken down from the roof of a building on Houston Street, but is expected to be reinstalled just down the block. By Colin Moynihan Contributing Op-Ed Writer ...
Russian approval of Vladimir Lenin is peaking as the centennial of his rise to power approaches, independent pollster the Levada Center has found. The majority of Russians (56 percent) view the ...
An 18-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin was taken down from the roof of a building on Houston Street, but is expected to be reinstalled just down the block. By Colin Moynihan Contributing Op-Ed Writer ...