It is 100 years on October 25, using Russia’s old calendar, since Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in what is now St Petersburg and took power. Not a lot has changed.
Reuters: Russia of 1917 and 2017 closer than might be expected
A girl walks past Belarus' collector Nikolai Pankrat's "The Epoch of Lenin" private museum in the town of Polotsk, some 225 km north of Minsk, on Oct. 13, 2017.
