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...late, great Dictator's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. Old Bolsheviks speak of him as "Ilyich." He took the pen name "N. Lenin." Though the N. stood only for "N." millions have assumed that it stood for "Nikolai...
Next day newspapers splashed across their front pages the ostensible reason for all the hubbub. On May 1 (May Day), near the centre of the Fresco had appeared a small head of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s son Nelson had asked Rivera ''to substitute the face of some unknown man where Lenin's face now appears." Rivera had countered by offering to balance Lenin with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The Rockefellers exploded, fired Rivera...
...Britain's most irrepressible characters were not disposed to maintain their tour on such a great-man-&-great-lady basis. As is their custom, they cavorted and japed in the most public places. Only at the Red Square in Moscow, where they gazed upon the mummy of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Nikolai Lenin), was Dramatist-Publicist Shaw as dignified as his impressive appearance. Over the corpse he commented: "A pure intellectual type. This is the true aristocracy." Other parts of the Shaw-Astor itinerary...
...Siberia. There he married Alexandra Lvovna, revolutionary coworker, because the work that we were doing bound us closely together." Two years later Trotsky escaped. On the fake passport friends provided he wrote the name Trotsky: of his several aliases that one somehow stuck. In London he met Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), worked with him on the Iskra, revolutionary magazine. Lenin and Trotsky had many a difference of opinion and one serious argument: Trotsky left Lenin for the Mensheviki (moderates), but during the Revolution became a Bolshevik again. Says he of Lenin: "He was my master. This does not mean that...
...observer, peering through a super-telescope from Mars last week, would have seen the clergy and congregations of the West becoming suddenly incensed against the statesmen of Soviet Russia who, for some twelve years past, have denied the existence of God or gods, and have steadily maintained that Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, called "Lenin," uttered a profound truth when he said: "Religion is opium for the people...