(Baonghean.vn) - Lenin was a great thinker, an outstanding political theorist, and a brilliant leader of the working class and working people worldwide. On the occasion of the 147th anniversary of Lenin's birth, let's look back at some images of his life.
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| Lenin, whose real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, was born on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, now Ulyanovsk, on the Volga River. (Photo of Lenin in 1887 upon graduating from Simbirsk Gymnasium). |
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| Lenin was a great thinker, an outstanding political theorist, the founder of the Communist International, and the founder of the Soviet state. |
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| Lenin (center) and leaders of the organization in St. Petersburg called the League for the Liberation of the Working Class in 1900. |
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| Lenin played chess with the renowned philosopher Alexander Bogdanov during a visit to the writer Maxim Gorky in April 1908. |
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| Lenin reading a newspaper in his Kremlin study in 1918. |
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| Lenin during a parade on Red Square in 1919. |
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| Lenin photographed with his successor Joseph Stalin in 1919. |
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| Lenin delivered a speech from a platform in Red Square to a large crowd and his comrades in 1920. |
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| Lenin conversed 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 Kremlin office due to health reasons and returned to live in 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 fell seriously ill and died on January 21, 1924, at the age of 53. |
Kim Ngoc
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