
A recently opened histroical museum in Moscow revealed that Vladimir Lenin's maternal grandfather was born jewish.
The founding father of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin identified himself as Russian in his biography.
In a letter to Stalin in 1932 — six years after Lenin's death — Anna Ulyanova, Lenin's older sister, wrote that their maternal grandfather "came from a poor Jewish family.
The information from declassified KGB files, is not a minor detail in a country where anti-Semitism was a recognized state doctrine for decades.
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