Lenin was German and Jewish on one side of his family (his mom was a Lutheran) and Chuvash (that is, Turkic) and Kalmyk (that is, Tatar/Mongol) on the other. (Which is quite visible in his face). I dated a Chuvash girl for a while who liked to talk about this. Lenin was from an area right by Chuvashia. Oddly enough, when his grandfather (great-grandfather?) converted to Orthodoxy from Judaism he became a real anti-Semite, trying to outlaw aspects of Judaism and so on and so forth. Weird. Supposedly Lenin didn't know about his Jewish ancestry until he was a grown man.
--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
> Chris Doss :
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> As any anti-Communist Russian nationalist will tell
> you at length, Lenin was not Russian. ;)
>
> ^^^^^
> Was Sverdlov Russian ?
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> Charles
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