Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin10 March 1918
Lenin and the Soviet government leave Petrograd for Moscow because the former capital is vulnerable to German attack.
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Lenin and the Soviet government leave Petrograd for Moscow because the former capital is vulnerable to German attack.
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