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BOLSHOI TIMES

Vladimir Ilich Ulianov - Lenin (04-10-1870 to 01-21-1924)

LENIN IS DEAD

Our beloved leader Vladimir Ilich Ulianov - Lenin passed away yesterday evening after fighting his illness for more than a year.  He will be fondly remembered by everyone! Today the entire Central Committee and several other members of the Party and Goverment has gone to Gorki to pay respect to our dead leader, and an Honor Guard is watching his body.

Photo January 1918

ILLNESS STARTED IN 1922

Lenin had not been feeling really well since he had several strokes starting in May 1922, and continuing into 1923.  He spent most of his time in this period at Gorki, his beutiful country estate about 30 miles from Moscow.  There he enjoyed his closest family, and received his closest colleagues.

Lenin, the Founder of the Soviet Union.

REMEMBER BLOODY SUNDAY!

Nineteen years ago today was Bloody Sunday (January 9, 1905, using the old style calendar), when one thousand Comrades died or were wounded in St. Petersburg in one of the worst massacres of the 1905 Revolution.

The Tsar's soldiers shooting at demonstrators at the Winter Palace

Bloody Sunday, 01-22-1905 (new calendar)

Nina Tumarkin, "Lenin Lives", Harvard University Press, p136,1997
Richard Pipes, "The Russian Revolution", Vintage Books, p25, 1991

Lenin is Dead, 01-22-1924

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