How Did Lenin's Effect On Russia

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It was a gloomy morning in the russian empire, in the area that is today known as Georgia, a group of people, trying to blend into the public, are on on their way to saint petersburg,the capital of russia at the time. What they would do there would change the course of history, not only for Russia, possibly, for the whole world.

The year is 1917, Russia is struggling to fight the germans on the east, and with the empire hungry japan on the west, Russia's army was drained to its very last man. Not only were the soldiers deserting their post, but the people of russia were becoming disobedient to the rule of the king. The exiled Vladimir Lenin was let back into the

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