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A trail leading to a dark, hidden episode in Bolshevik history filled with unspeakable horrors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is only one eyewitness - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, whose giant right hand stretches out towards the frozen River Neva. Lenin, Rossel thinks, seems to be pointing at someone. 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