(Baonghean.vn) - Lenin was a great thinker, an outstanding political theorist, and a brilliant leader of the working class and working people around the world. On the occasion of Lenin's 147th birthday, let's look back at some images of his life.
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| Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, born on April 22, 1870 in Simbirsk, now Ulyanovsk, on the Volga River. (Photo of Lenin in 1887 when he graduated from Simbirsk Gymnasium). |
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| Lenin was a great thinker, outstanding political theorist, founder of the Communist International and founder of the Soviet state. |
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| Lenin (center) and leaders of the St. Petersburg organization called the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class in 1900. |
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| Lenin plays chess with the famous philosopher Alexander Bogdanov during a visit to writer Maxim Gorky in April 1908. |
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| Lenin reading a newspaper in his Kremlin office in 1918. |
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| Lenin in a parade on Red Square in 1919. |
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| Lenin poses with his successor Joseph Stalin in 1919. |
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| Lenin gave a speech from the Red Square podium to a large crowd and comrades in 1920. |
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| Lenin talks with the famous British writer Herbert George Wells in his Kremlin office in 1920. |
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| Lenin speaking at the Third Congress of the Communist International in 1921. |
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| Lenin with his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya in the village of Gorki in 1922. |
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| VI Lenin led the country until 1922, when he left his office in the Kremlin for health reasons and moved to his home in the village of Gorki in the Moscow region. (Photo: Lenin with his nephew Viktor, son of Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov). |
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| In March 1923, Lenin became seriously ill and he died on January 21, 1924, at the age of 53. |
Kim Ngoc
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