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Reporter’s Notebook: What Would Vladimir Lenin Have Said?


What would Vladimir Lenin have said?

After the Bolshevik revolution, “while many of the other Kremlin magnates were soon enjoying the trappings of power, Lenin and Nadya [his wife] lived fairly modestly. Their domestic arrangements were similar to the way they had existed in exile — unostentatious,” writes Victor Sebestyen, author of an acclaimed new biography on Lenin.

The couple rarely dined in the well-stocked Kremlin restaurant — Lenin’s wife could be seen “trudging along the pavements with black bread under her arm and a tureen of soup.”

Across from Lenin’s Mausoleum in Red Square, where the preserved, waxy body of the Soviet …read more

Source: Voice of America

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