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“It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.” quote by Dmitri Volkogonov — Download Open image

“It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.”

Dmitri Volkogonov

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