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The New Voice of Ukraine on MSN3d
How and why Lenin and the Bolsheviks tried to replace the holiday with May Day — and what came of it
The Bolsheviks pursued a clear ideological goal: to eradicate religion and install state atheism across the USSR. Bolshevik ...
TheCollector on MSN9d
Embalming Lenin: Why Was the Soviet Founder Permanently Preserved?
At the edge of Moscow’s Red Square, by the walls of the Kremlin, stands a stone mausoleum that is home to the preserved body ...
Lenin Part 4: Ghost at the Kremlin
With power finally in Bolshevik hands, state terror arrives in Russia. The Soviet Union is born. But, installed in Red Square ...
Epic History on MSN21h
Enemy Number 1: Admiral Kolchak and the Russian Civil War
In western Europe, the four-year slaughter of World War One was drawing to an end.But across the former Russian Empire, a new ...
Communists celebrate Lenin's birth
Communists in Russia are commemorating the birth of Vladimir Ilich Lenin -- the founding father of the Soviet Union. Many Russians denounce suggestions that Lenin's body should be moved, and they made ...
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Russia Lenin Birthday
A Russian communists supporter stands holding a portrait of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, top, and Soviet Leader Josef ...
Into the Shadows on MSN12d
The Gulags: The USSR's Slave Labour Source
The Soviet gulags were labor camps stretching across brutal wildernesses of the USSR, designed to imprison dissenters, criminals, and anyone deemed a threat. First established under Lenin and expanded ...
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A 'Desi’ Take: How Lenin Influenced Our Independence Movement
On his birth anniversary (April 22), it’s worth taking a closer look at how this revolutionary from distant Russia became a ...