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A hundred years after the death of the Russian revolutionary leader Lenin, communists in Moscow and other cities have paid tribute to the founder of the Soviet Union. Lenin was the first person in the world to found a socialist state, said the head of Russia’s Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, in a speech at the mausoleum on a snowy Red Square on Sunday. The preserved corpse of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924), as he was formally known, is still on display today in the mausoleum, where communists gathered to lay flowers and wreaths. Zyuganov said that Lenin had tried to build a world with …

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