OT: Odd historical trivia — Vladimir Lenin was fascinated with the American Civil War as a boy

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WTH? From Victor Sebestyen’s highly-acclaimed 2017 biography Lenin:

For most of his early teens, Vladimir’s favourite book was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an early influence on him pre-dating Marx or any of the Russian radicals. He kept the novel by his bedside for many years.​

. . . . Indoors, the children, even the older ones, loved to play with toy soldiers. Vladimir always chose the American side and took the part of the Abraham Lincoln, or the union generals Grant and Sherman.​

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