Fallen colossus: USSR's terror, triumphs began 100 years ago
Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, left, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin sit in a park at Gorki residence in 1922 just outside Moscow, Russia. With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union cast a huge shadow on the world like that of a colossus that would loom forever. Lenin was already in poor health when the USSR was formed and he died of a stroke little more than a year later. Josef Stalin outmaneuvered rivals in the ensuing battle for power. (AP Photo, File)/ MOSCOW (AP) — With its brutality, ...
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