Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

"If Lenin could see us now...."

- Dreadnought captain

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ульянов), was a Russian communist revolutionary and politician, who played a pivotal role in the October Revolution of 1917 which propelled his faction, Bolsheviks, to power in Russia. He led Communist Russia through the subsequent brutal Civil War and in 1922 became the first leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He continued to struggle for the cause of Communism until his death in 1924.

Lenin is considered one of the most influential figures in modern communist history. Lenin's communist ideals - known as Leninism - served as the basis for the Soviet state. In communist nations and especially in the Soviet Union, Lenin is revered as a great communist leader and founder of the USSR.

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In honor of this accomplished man the Soviet Union has renamed the former Tsarist capital Petrograd to Leningrad.

The Soviet people have sworn that when the banner of communism flies high over New York, the so-called Statue of Liberty shall be torn down and replaced with one of this great revolutionary - Lenin, who lit for all the progressive peoples of the world the Way To Communism!

Trivia

 * Although he is mentioned in the Red Alert series; he never actually appears in a game.