Friday,
27 December 2024
How to destroy crops and starve millions

IN 1898, a young peasant couple, living and working on a farm in the then Tsarist autocracy of Russia would give birth to a son.

This son would witness a revolution that would overthrow the imperial government and install the Bolsheviks - the Russian Social-Democratic Worker’s Party - into power, with Vladimir Lenin at the helm as the head of government of the new Soviet Russia.

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