Lenin returns on the sealed train

1917 · Event

Germany ships its enemy's most dangerous exile home: Lenin crosses wartime Germany in a sealed carriage from Zurich and steps onto the platform at Petrograd's Finland Station to demand all power to the soviets. Ludendorff later boasts of the move; Churchill compares it to injecting a plague bacillus.

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