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Lenin: the deity of earth, toil,
and light bulbs, the giver of
beets, vodka, and happiness.
A principal deity of the Soviet
People who worshiped his
mummy while believing he was
still alive. Lenin's birthday
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Lenin Still Lives ! (An Unofficial Biography in Pictures)

Russian State Prize winner in literature and art Rinat Voligamsi (Ufa, Bashkiria) published his version of Lenin's life, reports Interfax.

"The song inspired me to dream on the theme "Lenin is alive, he is more alive than all the living" 15 years ago," Voligamsi has told Interfax on Thursday.

The artist imagines the leader of the world revolution didn't die in 1924, but abandoned politics and started living as a good Muslim because his relatives were of Bashkir origin. Then "renovated Lenin" begins associating with his fictitious twin-brother Sergey and goes on Hajj to Mecca and even writes a work entitled “Islam as the last hope of revolution”.

"I imagine Lenin as an ordinary villager sitting near his peasant's house and smoking tobacco he grew with his own hands in the garden or married to three women or going to Mecca late in life because I think that every atheist has his way to God and Lenin could have found this path," the artist says.

The author's fantasy goes on: Lenin is hiding away in Latin America during World War II where he consults Castro and Trotsky on various questions and he spends the last days of his life with his family in Zurich, where they have an antiques boutique.

The artist realized his unusual project in 2005 when he made 21 photo collages. He used hundreds of authentic old pictures in his work and turned them to "real fantasy" with Photoshop.

"No one saw any mockery in such a creative presentation and vision of Lenin's life. He was an ordinary man and could have lived the way represented by the artist," the Bashkir Union of Artists told Interfax.

AN UNOFFICIAL ALBUM

Vladimir Ulianov (Lenin) and his less known twin brother Sergey. Ufa, 1874


Little Lenin goes to the river to drown a cat with kittens, 1880
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Vladimir with twin brother Sergey. Ufa, 1885


Sergey with his wife Zukhra. Yabalak village, 1888


Lenin with his three wives on the way to Ufa, 1899


Lenin delivers Party cash, 1906


Lenin sharpens an axe, 1905-1906


Vladimir Lenin and brother Sergey in the Kremlin, Moscow, 1918


Sergey and daugther Natasha crossing the Finnish border, 1925


Lenin in Switzerland, managing his and his brother's antique shop. Zurich, 1937


V. Lenin and L.Trotsky. Kokokan, Mexico, 1938


Lenin with his final manuscript, Islam as the Last Hope of the Revolution. Baghdad, 1946


Lenin performs hajj to Mecca, 1949


Lenin in Havana, helping Fidel with the revolution, 1959


Lenin in his backyard garden. Santiago de Cuba, 1964