Lenin and Trotsky Sverdlov Square Moscow 1920
by David Lee Guss
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Lenin and Trotsky Sverdlov Square Moscow 1920
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, [ better known by the alias Lenin] (22 April 1870 - 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of the Russian Republic from 1917 to 1918, of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918 to 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed political theories known as Leninism."
Like Hitler he was a fiery speaker. Stalin was inept as a public speaker. He droned on, both softly and mostly inaudible.
Stalin had a falling out with Trotsky and had him airbrushed out of this photo. And he had the former commander of the Red army assassinated in Mexico City 20 years later.
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November 3rd, 2016
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