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Michael LaxerOct 11, 20223 min readThe Eugene V. Debs Children's Colony: Soviet children's homes expropriated from the wealthy, 1923The Lenin Children's Home in Orenburg After the devastation of the First World War, the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution saw the lands...
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