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January 30 – February 3, 2012: Social Media Share a History Lesson
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The No. 3 video was a gaffe made during a Russian television news program that related to the event. An anchor from Krasnoyarsk accidentally said the name of Putin instead of Vladimir Lenin when commenting on the debate in the blogosphere about whether...
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Tent of dreams….Vladimir Lenin actually appeared in my dreams a couple days ago as some tall green giant stalking me… that is how close we are to losing it all….> http://youtu.be/cCtJeqIiPMQ [...reportedly told authorities she created the fliers —...
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A painting featuring Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin is seen in the storage facility of the Beeskow Art Archive, in the small town of Beeskow, on January 30, 2012. The archive comprises some 23.000 exhibits, mostly paintings, drawings and graphics, which... View Photo »
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The 58-year-old Lenin Moreno, vice president of Ecuador, received the honour for the activities of his charity for the disabled, Manuela Espejo. Moreno himself was shot in the back by a robber in 1997 and is confined to a wheelchair. The deadline for...
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The ragtag crowd, which included representatives of the Communists and A Just Russia, supporters of presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov and even the banned National-Bolshevik Party, came to Vladimir Lenin’s monument in the eponymous square to...
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He means Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (2005) and its successor, Young Stalin (2008). He thinks of them as studies of a man before and after his prime: Young Stalin is a glimpse into the divinity student and aspiring poet who grew into Vladimir...
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Participants ski past a monument of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin during the FIS Cross-Country World Cup Ladies 1.5 km sprint free event in Moscow February 2, 2012. The Luzhniki stadium can be seen in the background. View Photo »
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Meaning to discuss the long-in-the-tooth topic of whether it is finally time to bury the mummified remains of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin on display outside the Kremlin wall in Moscow, Bukhtuyeva made a startling slip of the tongue. "Should we bury...
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His predecessor, Nikita Khrushchev, who sought to disarm and make peace with the West, got 24 percent. Khrushchev was seen as submitting to the West. Josef Stalin, who killed more Russians than the Nazis, got 28 percent, as did the founder of the...
About Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин; April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1870 – January 21, 1924), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Улья́нов) and also known by the pseudonyms V.I. Lenin and N. Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the principal leader of the October Revolution, the first... Full Article
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A Russian Communist party supporter carrying a portrait of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin walks in downtown Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 to mark 1917 Bolshevik Revolution anniversary.
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Two people hold a wreath in front of a monument of the Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin at Independence square in Minsk November 7, 2011. Several dozen people gathered in Minsk on Monday to mark Revolution Day, the official public holiday commemorating the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
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Russian artist Vasily Slonov creates a portrait of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky on the full collection of works of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin with an axe at the Museum of Modern Art in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, November 6, 2011. The exhibition "Dostoevsky's Tales"...
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A man and woman carry sacks of vegetables on their bicycles past a statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin during an agricultural fair in the town of Vileika, 95 kilometers (59 miles) north-west of Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011.
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A man carries a sack of vegetables past a statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin during an agricultural fair in the town of Vileika, 95 kilometers (59 miles) north-west of Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011.
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People play roles such as young pioneers, partisans, secretaries of the central committee, Lenin, Stalin, and other characters of the Soviet period, on April 30, 2011, as is the tradition each year at Grutas Park, about 120kms south from Vilnius. Grutas Park is situated on a 20 hectare...
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People play roles such as young pioneers, partisans, secretaries of the central committee, Lenin, Stalin, and other characters of the Soviet period, on April 30, 2011, as is the tradition each year at Grutas Park, about 120km south from Vilnius. Grutas Park is situated on a 20 hectare...
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A man photographs children in front of the Lenin monument in Grutas Park, about 120km south from Vilnius on April 30, 2011. Every year on the Saturday which falls before May 1st, people dress in Soviet-style outfits or as characters from that era as part of tongue-in-cheek celebrations...
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An impersonator of the creator of the Soviet Communist Party, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, walks past Lenin's monument on April 30, 2011, as is the tradition each year at Grutas Park, about 120km south from Vilnius. Grutas Park is situated on a 20 hectare area, and exhibits 86 works by 46...
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Girls joke around with statues of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, left, Felix Dzerzhinsky, center, founder of the first Soviet secret police force and Soviet ruler Josef Stalin, right, at the Grutas Park, in Druskininkai, Lithuania, Saturday, April 30, 2011. Grutas Park is a sculpture...
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Russian Communist supporters carry their red flags as they march in the Red Square in Moscow on April 22, 2011, to pay their respects at the tomb of Vladimir Lenin marking the 141st anniversary of his birth.
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Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov (2nd R) lays a wreath at Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum in the Red Square in Moscow on April 22, 2011, marking the 141st anniversary of his birth.
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Russian Communist supporters march in the Red Square in Moscow on April 22, 2011, to pay their respects at the tomb of Vladimir Lenin on the 141st anniversary of his birth.
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A man rummages through debris near a huge papier-mache head of communist leader Vladimir Lenin lying at an abandoned factory in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, on April 21, 2011. Lenin, real name Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who was born on April 22, 1870, led Russia's October Revolution in...
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Red Army soldiers members of Lenin's honour guard parade in front of Lenin's Mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square on August 29, 1991, a few days after the failed military coup. Soviet President Gorbachev has banned political organizations in the armed forces, KGB troops, Interior ministry...
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A woman walks past a sculpture of the founder of the Soviet state Vladimir Lenin in the sculpture park of the newly opened Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia September 19, 2011. Bulgaria opened a museum of Communist-era art in capital Sofia on Monday as the small Balkan country tries to...
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People walk amongst the display of statues representing various Soviet era rulers, including Vladimir Lenin, front, during the official opening of the Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia, Monday, Sep. 19, 2011. The new art museum in Sofia symbolizes Bulgaria's long and painful separation...
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People walk next to a sculpture of former Soviet ruler, Vladimir Lenin during the official opening of Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia, Monday, Sep. 19, 2011. The new art museum in Sofia symbolizes Bulgaria's long and painful separation from its totalitarian past, displaying some...
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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov stands in front of a portrait of former Soviet ruler, Vladimir Lenin, during the official opening of Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia, Monday, Sep. 19, 2011. The new art museum in Sofia symbolizes Bulgaria's long and painful separation from its...
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(Archive) A picture taken on April 22, 1990 in Moscow shows Russian Women reading the the organ of the Communist party of the USSR Pravda during a demonstration marking Lenin's 120th anniversary.
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Members of the official Soviet trade unions demonstrate under giant portraits of Marx, Engels and Lenin on Moscow's Red Square on May 1, 1990.
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A monument of the founder of Bulgarian communist party Georgy Dimitrov lies on the ground in front the monument of the former Soviet ruler, Vladimir Lenin, at the new Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. A new art museum opening in Sofia symbolizes Bulgaria's long...
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A portrait of Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin is displayed inside the decommissioned former Soviet aircraft carrier "Kiev" on Bagua beach, on the outskirts of northern China's Tianjin, August 16, 2011. China's first aircraft carrier luxury hotel, which occupies an area of...
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Soviet reformist communist leader and President of the USSR Supreme Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev (R) poses under a huge fresco of Lenin solemnly at the rostrum of the Congress of Deputies 15 March 1990 in Moscow, as he takes oath as the executive President of the USSR. At right,...
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A competitor with his makeshift craft that features Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin falls into the Moskva River during the Red Bull Flugtag Moscow 2011 competition in the Russian capital, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011.
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A Russian Communist party supporter carrying a portrait of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin walks in downtown Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 to mark 1917 Bolshevik Revolution anniversary.
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