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In March, Moscow police caught an unhinged man who allegedly tried to enter the Bolshevik firebrand’s mausoleum while ranting that “Vladimir Lenin had to allegedly absolve him of his sins ...

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Lenin didn’t smoke – he never let smokers near him. He also didn’t have diabetes, wasn’t overweight and the autopsy didn’t find any evidence of high blood pressure, Mackowiak said.

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Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and founding leader of the USSR, has long been rumored to have said, "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." ...

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Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, lays embalmed in his tomb on Moscow's Red Square in 1997. Sergei Karpukhin—AP ...