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23 unusual facts about Vladimir Lenin


Angola–Soviet Union relations

The Soviets, trying to increase their influence in Luanda, began sending busts of Vladimir Lenin, a plane full of brochures with Brezhnev's speech at the February 1976 Party Congress, and two planes full of pamphlets denouncing Mao Zedong, to Angola.

Arne Paasche Aasen

His poetic debut came in 1921 with the collection Sigd og hammer ("Sickle and Hammer"), where he hailed the revolution and Vladimir Lenin.

Austin Armoured Car

The Austin-Putilov armoured car named Vrag Kapitala (Enemy of the Capital), on display at the Artillery Museum, Saint Petersburg, is often referred to as the vehicle which Lenin stood on to address the crowd in April 1917.

Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth

"(b) summarised the case against the Communist Party by reference to its objectives and activities: it was said to engage in activities designed, in accordance with 'the basic theory of communism, as expounded by Marx and Lenin', to create a 'revolutionary situation' enabling it 'to seize power and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat.'

Avel Enukidze

Enukidze had written a book on the history of a famous Bolshevik printing press in the Caucasus which had distributed throughout Russia Vladimir Lenin's revolutionary theses during the Czarist period.

Cavriago

Cavriago is one of the very few places in Western Europe where a monument to Vladimir Lenin stands.

Denmark–Soviet Union relations

Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin visited for the first time Denmark in 1907, for a party meeting of Russian socialists in exile.

Dharmatala

Dharmatala Street has been renamed Lenin Sarani but the neighbourhood continues to be referred to as Dharmatala.

Harlan Crow

His Dallas residence includes a backyard statuary featuring replicas of dictators Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, and Joseph Stalin.

Internal resistance to South African apartheid

His evidence was that the ANC papers were full of such communist terms as "comrade" and "proletariat", often found in the writings of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.

Kalervo Palsa

His works include clear references to such people as Jean-Paul Sartre, Strindberg and Jean Genet, and many more subtle influences are listed on the first page of Eläkeläinen muistelee, where he mentions such kindred spirits as Jonathan Swift and Vladimir Lenin among many others.

Li Yuqin

She worked in a textile factory and in a library in Changchun, studying the works of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.

Maria Spiridonova

She led the Left SRs into alliance with Lenin and the Bolsheviks, but was imprisoned for a time and incarcerated in a mental sanitarium after the Left SRs broke with the Bolsheviks in 1918.

Matvey Kazakov

In the Soviet era, it housed party congresses and Vladimir Lenin's and Joseph Stalin's funeral services.

Minsk Passazhirsky railway station

The station is served by Minsk Metro at Ploshchad Lenina station (Lenin Square), part of the Moskovskaya Line.

My Brother Is an Only Child

Duce!', and their actions constantly tending to violence, the communists are hardly less so: Schiller's words in the final movement of Beethoven's choral symphony are replaced by a hymn in praise of Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin; a meeting of activists consists of a room full of bearded men all shouting at once and only agreeing when the time comes to shout a slogan.

Nikolay Krestinsky

After Vladimir Lenin's victory at the X Party Congress in March 1921, Krestinsky lost his Politburo, Orgburo and Secretariat posts and became Soviet ambassador to Germany.

Partiinost'

The term was coined by Vladimir Lenin in 1895, responding to Peter Struve, to counter what he considered to be the futility of objectivity in political economic analysis.

Realize your potential

The book is marked however by its creation in Soviet Union with Pekelis citing figures like Vladimir Lenin or Leonid Brezhnev on scientific issues.

Sleepers, Wake!

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford have shaped human experience more broadly and enduringly than Lenin and Hitler.

Somoniyon

In 1970, on the occasion of Lenin's 100th anniversary, it was renamed Lenin or Leninskiy.

Upper Clyde Shipbuilders

The campaign was also well backed financially, and at one meeting for the campaign Jimmy Reid was able to announce that the campaign had received a £5,000 contribution from John Lennon, to which an attendee replied "but Lenin's deid!" (dead).

Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet

Since 1836, the school has been situated at 2 Rossi Street in St. Petersburg, which was renamed Leningrad after Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924.


Amrit Nahata

Nahata started his career as an educator and translator; throughout his career he published twelve books translated from English into Hindi, including works of Maxim Gorky, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong and Liu Shaoqi.

Armando Hart

In January 2005, Armando Hart wrote an article on Joseph Stalin, in which he denounced the ideas of Stalinism and its practice, while defending the ideas of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, and Leon Trotsky.

B. Kwaku Duren

He thus began an intensive study of African–American history while in prison, reading books such as The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He also devoured works by writers such as J. A. Rogers, Erich Fromm, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, and Vladimir Lenin.

Bill Bland

Bland considered Mao Zedong a left-deviationist while still maintaining that Hoxha was a true Marxist-Leninist in the tradition of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.

Blank family

The Blank family is a family of Jews, some of whom converted to Orthodox Christianity in the Russian Empire, mostly notable as the immediate ancestry of the maternal grandfather of Vladimir Lenin according to various published researchers who suggest that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jewish convert to Christianity (Alexander Blank).

Chinsegut Hill Manor House

During the Russian Revolution, Raymond was appointed as the Commissioner of the American Red Cross Mission to Russia where he met with numerous Russian dignitaries including Alexander Kerensky, Leon Trotsky, and Vladimir Lenin.

Coffin

Sometimes coffins are constructed to permanently display the corpse, as in the case of the glass-covered coffin of the Haraldskær Woman on display in the Church of Saint Nicolai in Vejle, Denmark or the glass-coffin of Vladimir Lenin which is in the Red Square in Moscow.

Elista

The town center has a number of renovated public parks focused on the main square, boasting statues to both Lenin and the Buddha.

Georgi Dimitrov

A massive painted statue of Dimitrov survives in the centre of Place Bulgarie in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, two decades after the country abandoned Marxism-Leninism and the colossal statue of Vladimir Lenin was removed from Place Lenine.

Imre Varga

He created a wide array of works - ranging from statues of Vladimir Lenin to the Holocaust, to statues of Francis II Rákóczi, Raoul Wallenberg, Sir Winston Churchill and Béla Bartók to Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle.

John A. Hobson

V.I. Lenin, in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) - which was probably his most influential work on later Marxian scholarship - made use of Hobson's Imperialism extensively, remarking in the preface "I made use of the principal English work, Imperialism, J. A. Hobson's book, with all the care that, in my opinion, that work deserves."

Left-wing fascism

Sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz, in his 1984 book "Winners and Losers", built on Vladimir Lenin's work "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder.

Lenin's Hanging Order

"Hanging Order" is a name given by the Library of Congress to Vladimir Lenin's telegram on suppressing kulaks' revolt in the Penza Gubernia region.

Michman Panin

He receives a letter from Vladimir Lenin, in which the latter expresses his regret regarding Panin's being away from the Navy.

Oscar Cesare

In October 1922 Cesare had the very rare privilege of gaining admittance to the Kremlin to paint sketches of the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin.

Paul Lafargue

In these late years, Lafargue had already distanced himself from any form of political activity, living on the outskirts of Paris in the village of Draveil, limiting his contributions to a number of articles and essays, as well as occasional contacts with some of the most outstanding socialist activists of the time, such as Karl Kautsky and Hjalmar Branting of the older generation, and Karl Liebknecht or Vladimir Lenin of the younger generation.

Pizza Tycoon

The game also displays a playful sense of humor; from the graphics and cartoonish drawings, game messages, or animated faces of famous people (such as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan or Lenin) that are put on interacting characters.

Rasul Bux Palejo

He got well versed in literature by reading Kant, Hegel, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Mohandas Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Sing, Little Birdie

Mao Zedong provided the winning answer, beating out fellow panelists Che Guevara, Vladimir Lenin, and Karl Marx.

Southgate Road

Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky visited Southgate Road for the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1907, which was held at the Brotherhood Church which once stood on the corner of Southgate Road and Balmes Road.

Soviet art

However the latter sought too much independence from the ruling Communist Party of Bolsheviks, gained negative attitude of Vladimir Lenin, by 1922 declined considerably, and was eventually disbanded in 1932.

Tropico 3

The "loading" and "saving" screens have quotes from various dictators, leaders, politicians, and revolutionaries such as Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, John F. Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Augusto Pinochet, Nikita Khrushchev, Leon Trotsky, Mobutu Sese Seko, Todor Zhivkov, Vladimir Putin, Muammar Gaddafi, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Tropico 4

The "loading" and "saving" screens have quotes from various dictators, leaders, politicians, and revolutionaries such as Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Augusto Pinochet, Nikita Khrushchev, Leon Trotsky, Mobutu Sese Seko, Todor Zhivkov, Vladimir Putin, Josip Broz Tito, Muammar Gaddafi, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau

He was also instrumental in facilitating the passage of the Bolsheviks Vladimir Lenin and Karl Radek across Germany in a sealed train in 1917.