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History is always filled with remarkable journeys that changed the course of the world. Be it the Hijra of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina or Netaji Subash Bose's escape from Calcutta to Berlin or Mao Zedong's long march across China - they have all been very critical and timely. And in 1917, there was one such very significant homecoming trip. This is the train journey of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov or better known as Lenin and 30 of his followers from Zurich to Petrograd, the capital of Russian empire then.
Lenin was living in exile in Zurich when the last Tsar abdicated. He knew instantly that his time had come to return and declare a war on the "dictatorship of the proletariat" . To go back to Russia, a plan was hatched. Lenin and his followers would be put on a sealed carriage and attached to a train that would go from Zurich, all across Germany. From the Baltic sea border, they will enter neutral Sweden, cross Frozen river and enter into Russia via Finland. Of course, it was risky throughout - they could be shot in Germany on account of being Russians or they could be shot in Finland/Russia as they could be considered German spies.
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By Sivakumar Sethuraman
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History is always filled with remarkable journeys that changed the course of the world. Be it the Hijra of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina or Netaji Subash Bose's escape from Calcutta to Berlin or Mao Zedong's long march across China - they have all been very critical and timely. And in 1917, there was one such very significant homecoming trip. This is the train journey of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov or better known as Lenin and 30 of his followers from Zurich to Petrograd, the capital of Russian empire then.
Lenin was living in exile in Zurich when the last Tsar abdicated. He knew instantly that his time had come to return and declare a war on the "dictatorship of the proletariat" . To go back to Russia, a plan was hatched. Lenin and his followers would be put on a sealed carriage and attached to a train that would go from Zurich, all across Germany. From the Baltic sea border, they will enter neutral Sweden, cross Frozen river and enter into Russia via Finland. Of course, it was risky throughout - they could be shot in Germany on account of being Russians or they could be shot in Finland/Russia as they could be considered German spies.
To learn more, read or listen to the episode in a platform of your choice from linktr.ee/masalahistory & follow us while you are there.
#masalahistory #history #historybuff #historynerd #russia #russianrevolution #ussr #lenin #trains #stalin #communism
#worldwar1 #greatwar #czar #lastczar #stpetersburg #finland #zurich
#war #warhistory #revolution #journey