Biografia

Soviet Russia was the only country to recognize the self-proclaimed Irish Republic in 1919. The republic was succeeded by the Irish Free State in 1922.

He is regarded even in non-Communist circles as one of the greatest revolutionary leaders in history.

In cooperation with the German government, Lenin and about 30 other Bolsheviks were allowed to ride home from exile in Switzerland to Petrograd (St. Petersburg) about a month after Tsar Nicholas II had been forced to abdicate. No one outside the train car was allowed contact with them while they traveled through Germany, which was at the time at war with Russia. Winston Churchill, who intensely disliked the Bolshevik regime from its inception, likened this operation to transferring "a plague bacilli in a closed bottle".

He was a militant anti-smoker.

Took the custom-made Rolls-Royce previously owned by the murdered Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.

Naivete in politics is worse than a crime.

The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

[from his instruction to Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the KGB] Of all the arts, the cinema is the most important for us, communists, to keep the people under control.

Destroy the family, you destroy the country.

Comrade Stalin [Joseph Stalin'] is unfit for leadership. He is too rude and undereducated.