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10.101- The United Oppositon

Revolutions

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Lenin and the Soviet Party

After lennon's death, the communist party wound up in a completely different place than it had been before. The various political battles of the 19 twenties and the 19 thirties were always waged in terms of who most accurately reflected lennin's original vision. His own statements were emphasized or suppressed to fit the changing needs and desires of whoever happened to be controlling the church party at the time. Shortly after his death, they renamed petrograd leningrad, the name that it would bear until the collapse of the soviet union. After some trial and error with the preservation process, they finally concocted the right mix of chemicals. And so lenin's corpse was emb

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