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Away from Russia, he continued to publish and won more followers on his side. He created the published his newspaper “Iskra” (“Spark”) in Munich with the motto “From Spark to Flame!” Aided by foreign funds, Lenin actively challenged established the doctrine, policy and institution of the ruling Tsarist regimes.
====World War I Fatigue====
[[File:Russian_prisoners_tannenberg.jpg|thumbnail|350px|Russian prisoners after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Tanneburg in 1914]]
In 1917, exhausted by World War One, Tsarist Russia was up for a changewreck. It was the perfect chaos moment for Lenin to return home. He was additionally funded by the Germans who Germany, in effort to destabilize Russia, helped send Lenin back to Russia. They hoped that he Lenin would undermine the Russian war efforts. Instead of arrested and exiled again, Lenin was warmly welcomed home and supported by other radical thinkers (e.g. such as Leon Trotsky) he . He quickly became the leader of the Marxist movement and led the Bolsheviks in the bloody violent Red October Revolution. Lenin, much to his own surprise, effectively ended the Russian Empire rather easily and established the Soviet state that would soon become a global superpower. Masses loved him, he The Tsar had won their full support become incredibly unpopular and devotion with his speeches and “illegal” writings calling for a change. In the following almost three years of civil war, the Bolsheviks assumed total control of the country. Vladimir acted as the first head of this new socialistic regime and was the architect of the USSR itself. were willing to embrace Lenin also commanded and led the famous Red Army - established immediately after the 1917 October Revolution. <ref>A.k.a's revolution. Red October or Bolshevik Revolution </ref>
In the following three years of civil war, the Bolsheviks successfully assumed total control of the Russia. Lenin acted as the first head of this new socialistic regime and was the architect of the USSR itself. Lenin also commanded and led the famous Red Army - established immediately after the 1917 October Revolution. <ref>A.k.a. Red October or Bolshevik Revolution </ref> Lenin proved decisive and ruthless from the very beginning: he . He neglected his fellow countrymen sufferings and mercilessly crushed , because he was focused crushing any internal opposition or riots. The Red Army or as it was also commonly referred to - The Great Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army - was raised by Lenin’s Bolsheviks to oppose the various military collectively known as the White army during the Russian Civil War. After 1922 , the Red Army became was transformed into the army Army of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established by the new regime. In February 1946 it effectively transformed, embodied and led the Soviet Armed Forces or Soviet Army. Historically, the Red Army is also credited as being the decisive land force in the Allied victory in World War II during the operations on the Eastern Front.
==Lenin’s Cult of Personality==