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and Paris is surrounded again by,
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in this case, somebody else's government,
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that is, the provisional government.
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So, the Commune begins on the 18th of March,
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1871, and it lasts until the end of May,
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1871. Lenin once called it the "Festival of the Oppressed";
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and Lenin was wrong about many things,
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he was right about a few things but wrong about many,
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but he got that one right.
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And, so, for the first time ordinary Parisians
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found themselves masters of their own lives.
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The wealthy people mostly got out again,