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Lenin’s Hero Nechayev: The Evilest Communist Who Ever Lived?

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Lenin’s Hero Nechayev: The Evilest Communist Who Ever Lived?
Russian communist revolutionary leader, Vladimir Lenin (1879 - 1924), giving a speech in to men of the Red Army leaving for the front, during the Polish-Soviet War, Sverdlov Square (now Theatre Square), Moscow, 5th May 1920. On the right of the platform are People's Commissar Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940) and Politburo member Lev Kamenev (1883 - 1936). Keystone/Getty Images
Trevor Loudon
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Whether consciously aware of it or not, every communist dictator, butcher, torturer, and terrorist of the past century and a half owes a debt to Sergey Gennadiyevich Nechayev.

Trevor Loudon
Trevor Loudon
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Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics. He is best known for his book “Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress” and his similarly themed documentary film “Enemies Within.”
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