As Russia's military escalation in eastern Ukraine continued last week, Vladimir Putin found time to visit the Seliger National Youth Forum, a summer camp for pro-Kremlin young people some two hundred miles northwest of Moscow. Among the many subjects discussed was history: he spoke about the Bolsheviks, the masterminds of the 1917 October revolution and the founders of the Soviet state. To many in Russia, Putin's interpretation of the revolution would sound odd. He accused the Bolsheviks of treachery because they undermined the country's military effort against the Germans in the First World War.
New Yorker: Putin disses Lenin
This undated file picture shows Soviet policemen standing guard in front of the KGB building (aka Lubianka) in Moscow, with a portrait ov Vladimir Lenin on it.
