Then, Lenin was god and Stalin the mythmaker ... The walls of Moscow were covered with his huge portraits. His statues and busts of all possible sizes filled the squares, the halls of public ...

A black-bordered portrait of Stalin was mounted above ... the tested leadership of the Communist Party, created by Lenin and Stalin." (In London it was recalled that Stalin, as successor to ...

When discussing the 1917 revolution, and subsequent arguments between Stalin and Lenin about how the USSR should be formed, "Stalin is the good guy" in Putin's version of history, said Latvian ...