Stored deep underground by Soviet authorities, secret files documenting the life of Lenin were hidden away for decades in a labyrinth of vaults, behind blast-proof steel doors, specially strengthened to withstand nuclear attack. The programme's exclusive access to the intimate dossiers reveals a disturbed man with a turbulent personal life whose political reign involved terror tactics against the enemies of socialism to force the pace of revolutionary change and direct orders for mass executions.
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