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Thank you We sneak and here's your smoke to your

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brought to you by lenin Oh no not that lenin

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here's a question vladimir lenin's right hand man who was

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instrumental in developing the philosophical direction of the early soviet

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union wass hoop and here choices that hurts All right

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the most obvious choice might be see stalin The name

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sure is famous but that's because he was the leader

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of the soviet union throughout the second world war And

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because his mustache was so big that it actually over

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took control of the union from stalin himself we might

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have made that second part up But well regardless stone

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wasn't helping lenin in the early days of the soviet

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union so we can get rid of option c purcell

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to may sound familiar He was a famous austro hungarian

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journalist writer and political activist He founded modern political zionism

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and lead the world zionist organization until his giant beard

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took over for him in nineteen o one And all

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right fine fine We'll give it a rest But for

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all of his credits he wasn't lenin's right hand man

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So he's not the right answers Our last wrong answer

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is d alexandre kerensky Well kerensky was a key figure

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in the russian revolution It was anything but let his

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right hand man he was actually overthrown by the lenin

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led bolsheviks during the october revolution So who was lennon's

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b f f enter be leon trotsky lenin's Right hand

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man and are correct Answer Trotsky and lenin shared more

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than just a taste for epic stashes Trotsky help lenin

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in the october revolution and became a leader within the

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russian social democratic labour where part the two were inseparable

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And what a lovely pair they make Nothing good gonna

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run right Well unfortunately for them the story didn't end

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there Let him got sick and died in nineteen twenty

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foreign trust He was eventually ousted from the government and

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assassinated on stalin's orders in nineteen forty all because of 00:01:50.753 --> [endTime] that evil power hungry mustache Yeah

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