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Vladimir Lenin Died 101 Years Ago — This Happened: January 21
It was 101 years ago on this day that Vladimir Lenin died at the age of 53. U.S. beats Canada after 4 Nations Face-Off fights, ends Sidney Crosby's 26-game streak Big Tech hiring more workers ...
Fremont’s Lenin statue is spattered with orange and yellow paint
The Soviet leader's bronze hands are often painted red. Other recent vandalism has symbolized the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
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Opinion: Lenin was right and Fukuyama was wrong
It turns out that Vladimir Lenin and REM were right. Francis Fukuyama was wrong. In 1921, during the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy period, Lenin is supposed to have exclaimed that “The ...
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Life-size Lenin among Soviet art up for auction
A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton ...
Will the US collapse like the Soviet Union did?
"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...
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Finland’s Lenin museum shifts focus amid tensions with Russia
A museum in Finland was long known as the last museum in Europe dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and founding father of the Soviet Union. While the museum long symbolized the ...
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The revolutionary lens: Andy Warhol’s Lenin series and the intersection of art, history and collecting
Andy Warhol’s choice to immortalize Vladimir Lenin might initially seem like an outlier. Known for his obsession with American consumerism, celebrity culture, and the sheen of surface-level ...
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Lenin was right and Fukuyama was wrong
It turns out that Vladimir Lenin and REM were right. Francis Fukuyama was wrong. In 1921, during the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy period, Lenin is supposed to have exclaimed that “The ...