While you were busy figuring out new ways to go about looning up a perfectly good day, I was busy exercising my already massively powerful neuron by reading, "LENIN - The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror" by Victor Sebestyen. Thus far, I have found the book to be an excellent read and found these two sentences on page 36 particularly interesting,

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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 this novel by his bed for many years.

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