Anonymous ID: 6bf94b Feb. 29, 2024, 10:38 p.m. No.20498029   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Lenin's Jewish roots put on display in Russian museum

 

Exhibition reveals letter written by Lenin's sister claiming maternal grandfather was Ukrainian Jew; Stalin told sister to keep letter quiet.

 

https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Lenins-Jewish-roots-put-on-display-in-Russian-museum

Anonymous ID: 6bf94b Feb. 29, 2024, 11:02 p.m. No.20498083   🗄️.is đź”—kun

1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place

 

A century ago, one section of Vienna played host to Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin.

 

In January 1913, a man whose passport bore the name Stavros Papadopoulos disembarked from the Krakow train at Vienna's North Terminal station.

 

Of dark complexion, he sported a large peasant's moustache and carried a very basic wooden suitcase.

 

"I was sitting at the table," wrote the man he had come to meet, years later, "when the door opened with a knock and an unknown man entered.

 

"He was short… thin… his greyish-brown skin covered in pockmarks… I saw nothing in his eyes that resembled friendliness."

 

The writer of these lines was a dissident Russian intellectual, the editor of a radical newspaper called Pravda (Truth). His name was Leon Trotsky.

 

The man he described was not, in fact, Papadopoulos.

 

He had been born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, was known to his friends as Koba and is now remembered as Joseph Stalin.

 

Read more…. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21859771