Fanny Kaplan shoots Lenin

1918 · Event

Leaving a Moscow factory rally, Lenin takes two bullets from Fanny Kaplan, a half-blind Socialist Revolutionary who calls him the revolution's betrayer. He survives; the same day Petrograd's Cheka chief is assassinated, and within a week the Red Terror is decreed.

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