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[[Image:Khvhkgfiy.jpg|right|thumb|Vladimir Lenin]]

[[Image:Khvhkgfiy.jpg|right|thumb|Vladimir Lenin]]

'''Vladimir Lenin''' (born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov <ref>"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (Russian: Владимир Ильич Улянов, Ленин) was the pseudonym he used after 1900 to disguise his identity.</ref>) (April 22, 1870 – January 21, 1924) was the leader of Russian [[Communism]] and an important theoretician of [[Marxism]]. Coming to power in 1917, he became dictator of the [[Soviet Union]].  All over the Soviet Union and even to some extent some Western countries, there were statues and paintings honoring his memory; some were removed when Communism collapsed in 1991.  Lenin repudiated and tried to stop his successor [[Joseph Stalin]].

'''Vladimir Lenin''' (born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov <ref>"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (Russian: Владимир Ильич Улянов, Ленин) was the pseudonym he used after 1900 to disguise his identity.</ref>) (April 22, 1870 – January 21, 1924) was the leader of Russian [[Communism]] and an important theoretician of [[Marxism]]. Coming to power in 1917, he became dictator of the [[Soviet Union]].  All over the Soviet Union and even to some extent some Western countries, there were statues and paintings honoring his memory; some were removed when Communism collapsed in 1991.  Lenin repudiated and tried to stop his successor [[Joseph Stalin]], who was an even worse tyrant.

==Early life==

==Early life==