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Putin and the Russian revolution

Russian revolution

Nov. 7 1918, Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin addresses a crowd during the first year of Revolution in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. Source: Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

President Putin has unveiled the Wall of Sorrow. The monument commemorates the millions of people killed during Stalin's communist regime. Dutch correspondent Joost Bosman in Moscow explains why Putin is now taking an alternative view of the past.



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