# SOVIET PROPAGANDA NEWSREEL LENIN'S LIFE IN KRAKOW, POLAND 50484

Dating to the 1960s, this Soviet propaganda newsreel shows the strong bond between the USSR and Poland and looks at Lenin's life in Krakow in 1912. Narrator: Lenin. The Polish nation holds sacred the memory of the time when the great leader of the world’s laborers lived and worked on its land. It was 1912, the year of a new upsurge in the revolutionary movement in Russia. Lenin was abroad in Paris, and from there it was becoming increasingly difficult to monitor the works of the Russian party and the growing revolutionary movement of the workers and peasants. (01.50) In June 1912, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya moved from Paris to Krakow. (02.03) Old Krakow appeared to be particularly quiet and peaceful compared to the bustling streets and boulevards of Paris. (02.18) Lenin and Krupskaya settled far from the city center, where simple wooden fences were bending towards the ground, where sun rays shone through the windows like in a village. This district was called Pulvsya (03.30) This is Florchek’s house, where the new citizens of Krakow settled. The nerve center of the revolution moved to this house. (03.59) During his stay in Poland, Lenin wrote 285 articles. Those articles were of great help to the Polish workers’ movement as well. (05.01) Lenin’s wife and associate, Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, took up secretarial duties. The house mistress, Nadezhda Konstaninovna, came here almost daily. (06.02) In the following years, she often…

- Kind: Newsreel
- Genres: News, Industrial and advertising, Propaganda
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/50484RussianShortFilm8)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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