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Economist: Russia’s once-tame Communist Party is becoming an opposition force

By The Economist.

Published Oct. 30, 2021 at 6:56 am

Birds fly behind a monument to the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin in the town of Oryol on Feb. 5, 2019, a day before the city' court is due to announce the verdict in the trial against Dennis Christensen, a Danish Jehovah's Witness accused of extremism.

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Ekaterina Engalycheva never got her badge showing Lenin as a child. The week she was supposed to join the Oktiabriata (“little Octobrists”, a reference to the revolution of 1917), as all Soviet children did at the age of seven, the Soviet Union fell apart.