Lenin Stalin facts
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Before his death, Lenin published a testament that stated Stalin should be immediately removed from power as Lenin was "not sure if he can be trusted to use authority with sufficient caution"
how did lenin and stalin meet?
The Soviet Diplomat Molotov was reportedly the only man to ever "shake hands" with Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Roosevelt and Churchill.
What is leni riefenstahl known for?
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what happened to leni riefenstahl?
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Russian criminal and prisoners would get large chest and back tattoos of Stalin and Lenin, not out of respect, but to avoid having internal organs damaged during beatings by guards who would not denigrate the images.
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The Soviet Diplomat Molotov was reportedly the only man to ever "shake hands" with Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Roosevelt and Churchill. He also outlived them all and died in 1986 at the age of 96.
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The bald-hairy joke, which states that Russian leaders have been alternately bald and not bald (hairy) since 1825. For example, Lenin (bald) was succeeded by Stalin (hairy), who in turn was succeeded by Khrushchev (bald), then Brezhnev (hairy)
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Napoleon was taller than both Lenin and Stalin
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Russian criminal and prisoners would get large chest and back tattoos of Stalin and Lenin, not out of respect, but to avoid having internal organs damaged during beatings by guards who would not denigrate the images.
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About "Bald–Hairy" a Russian political joke based on the observation that the nation's presidents consistently alternate hair types (ie Lenin was bald, Stalin had hair, Khruschev was bald, Brezhnev had hair.)
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Joseph Stalin with a group of others including Vladimir Lenin robbed a bank in 1907, which left 40 dead and 50 injured. The group made of with 341,000 rubles ($3.4 million USD)
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Stalin's embalmed body lay next to Lenin's for 8 years in the mausoleum on the Red Square before being removed in 1961.
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During Stalin's mental breakdown after Hitler betrayed him, he is quoted to have said “Lenin founded our state, and we’ve fucked it up.”
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Some Soviet prisoners had portraits of Lenin and Stalin tattooed on their chest for ‘protection’, as it was commonly believed that the guards were forbidden to shoot at an image of their great leaders
Why lenin why stalin why gorbachev?
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Vladimir Lenin, in his final testament to his party published after hours death, insisted that Joseph Stalin be removed from his office of Secretary General. Stalin ultimately became Lenin's successor after massively growing the power of that office.
In 1913, Freud, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler were all living in the same neighborhood in Vienna, Austro at the same time. - source
The USSR had it's own version of the Nobel Prize, originally named after Stalin, then after Lenin. Some winners were WEB Dubois, Fidel Castro, Pablo Picasso, Leonid Breshnev, Angela Davis, Indira Gandhi, and the final recipient, Nelson Mandela. - source
Some of the most famous communist leaders and activists in history include Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Leon Trotsky, Pol Pot, Nikita Khrushchev, Kim Il-Sung, Imre Nagy, Jiang Zemin, Ho Chi-Minh, and Joseph Stalin.
Lenin recommended that "the comrades think about a way of removing Stalin from his post" in his Testament which was thrown away by Stalin. - source
When did leni riefenstahl die?
In 1907 Tiflis, Russia, Vladimir Lenin teamed up with Joseph Stalin and others to rob a bank of 341,000 Rubles (today 3.96 million USD) resulting in the death of 40 people and injuring 50
It was common for prisoners in the USSR to tattoo Lenin or Stalin onto their chests, claiming that "a firing squad would never dare shoot such an image."
Pablo Picasso held communist views, and received the Stalin Peace Prize and the Lenin Peace Prize
As news reached Stalin of the success of the Germans in the initial invasion of the USSR he declaimed, "Lenin founded our state and now we’ve f**ked it up!"
A shift in popular personality cult was evident in Soviet propaganda, "where at first Lenin would be the dominating figure over Stalin, but as time went on became first only equal, and then smaller and more ghostly, until he was reduced to the byline on the book Stalin was depicted reading."
Lenin created a secret police force and paved the way for Stalinism
