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Ukraine — Ukrainian nationalists hurled red paint at a restored monument to Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin moments after it was unveiled Friday, sparking a street brawl and revealing the bitter divisions over the legacy of communism in Ukraine. The nationalist...
Tags: Vladimir Lenin, Ukraine, Kiev Ukrainian, AM Lenin, Viktor Yushchenko, red paint, restored monuments, Kiev, Holodomor, Heads of government of the Soviet Union, Presidents of Ukraine, Heroes of Socialist Labor, Disaster Accident, Old Bolsheviks, Marxist theorists
Ukraine — Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance. For others beyond this manufacturing graveyard, however, Ukraine's economic collapse...
Tags: Ukraine, hot air, Vladimir Lenin, Copenhagen, Soviet Union, Russia, Konstantinovka, Environment, Mitigation of global warming, Emissions trading, Carbon finance, Global warming, Carbon credit, Kyoto Protocol, Low-carbon economy
8 Die in Blast at Weapons Depot Published: November 23, 2009 An explosion at a navy weapons depot killed at least eight soldiers and injured several others on Monday, less than two weeks after a similar blast at the same depot killed two and forced...
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Revolutionary Lion,� a new exhibition at the Museum of Political History, pays tribute to the life and work of Leon Trotsky. On Nov. 6, the museum unveiled a modest but concise exhibition of rare photographs, manuscripts, letters and other artifacts in...
Tags: Leon Trotsky, Red Army, Mexico, Mexico City, Old Bolsheviks, Jewish atheists, Left Opposition, Vladimir Lenin, Politics, Russian revolutionaries, Marxist theorists, Bolsheviks
The victory over our adversaries is not yet achieved, and the newspapers are arms in their hands. In these conditions, the closing of the newspapers is a legitimate measure of defence.’ And according to Lenin: ‘We Bolsheviki have always said that when...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Communism, Jewish atheists, Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, Socialism, Russian revolutionaries, Marxist theorists, Soviet phraseology, Politics, War Conflict
November ‘Steadily, amid the chaos of shocking change, the Council of People’s Commissars hammered at the scaffolding of the Socialist order...The American writer John Reed continued to record events in his epic account of the revolution, Ten Days that...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Volost, Vladimir Lenin, Commissar
One person has died and 35 others are missing after a series of blasts tore through an arms depot in western Russia Friday, local news agencies reported.A fire at a defence ministry arsenal in Ulyanovsk, a city on the banks of the Volga River, caused...
Tags: explosion, allnews, Russia, Moscow, Ulyanovsk, Vladimir Lenin, Disaster Accident, War Conflict, Environment, Sergei Morozov, arms depot
A fire at a defence ministry arsenal on the outskirts of Ulyanovsk caused blasts which shattered windows of nearby homes, local reports said. Some 3,000 people have been evacuated from the surrounding area, the local governor is quoted as saying. The...
Tags: causes, Russia, Moscow, Vladimir Lenin, Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, Disaster Accident, Environment, Sergei Morozov, Ulyanovsk
Back in 1909, Adolph Hitler was a jobbing artist in Vienna and Lenin was in exile. The house where they allegedly played the game belonged to a prominent Jewish family, who left the Austro-Hungarian capital in the run-up to the Second World War and leaving...
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler
Five people have been arrested for smashing the face and ripping the arm off a large statue of Vladimir Lenin, on display in Kiev, in the latest ignominious attack on the Bolshevik leader. Police said the five had links with a Ukrainian nationalist organisation...
Tags: Vladimir Lenin