RE: Lenin was shot August 30, 1918 - but survived!

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Lenin was shot August 30, 1918 - but survived!

in history •  7 years ago 

What was his motivation for the shooting?

Did he have some kind of epiphany, realized marxist socialism was evil and soul destroying, and tried to end it before it grew? lol

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It was a "her" - Fanya Caplan - she was a member of the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) and viewed Lenin as a ‘traitor to the revolution’, when his Bolsheviks banned her party.

ah, ok , thanks.
Although I would argue however that there are no 'hers' in socialism - Its sexual repression! lol