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Lenin was rumored to have been an agent of the Germans,
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by his enemies,
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because of the way he got back to Russia
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after the initial revolutions.
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He was the son of a peasant.
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He had that kind of curriculum vitae that lots of folks,
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including Stalin, had.
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He had participated in armed holdups to raise money for revolution
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and became a Bolshevik.
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He transferred the czar and family to
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a much smaller place.
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The czar and his wife believed, naively,