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Lenin suffered three debilitating strokes in 1922 and 1923 before his death in 1924, beginning a power struggle which ended in the rise to power of Joseph Stalin. Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991.
The family of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has served in office from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012, comes from the Russian peasantry. Spiridon Putin (1879–1965) was a cook in Gorky (now known as Nizhny Novgorod), his son Vladimir Spiridonovich (1911–1999) participated in World War II, and grandson Vladimir Vladimirovich (born 1952) made a career in the KGB and the FSB, before being ...
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin [c] [d] (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 [e] and again from 2008 to 2012.
He had two children, Fred Trump III (b. 1962) and Mary Trump (b. 1965, with his ex-wife Linda Clapp. Fred Jr. died in 1981, at age 42, of a heart attack brought on by his alcoholism.
PUTIN ON TRUMP. Putin said last month he had always had "pragmatic and trusting" relations with Trump, and voiced support for the latter's false claim that he, not Joe Biden, was the real winner ...
Spiridon Ivanovich Putin was born to Russians Ivan Petrovich Putin (1845–1918) and Paraskeva Matveevna Putina (née Golubeva; 1844–1906) in Tver Governorate, Russian Empire. At 12 years old he worked with his cousin at an inn in Tver , and at 15 years old he moved to Saint Petersburg to study cooking.
Recognising that he had to proceed with caution, Lenin did not enter into immediate negotiations with the Central Powers, but rather drafted his Decree on Peace, in which he proposed a three-month armistice; it was then approved by the Second Congress of Soviets and presented to the German and Austro-Hungarian governments. [103]