AHC: Lenin as a British General In the Boer War

Inspired by the latest Nazis vs. Soviets thread...

With a POD no earlier than, say, 1850, make it so Vladimir Lenin is a British general in the Boer War.

The only idea I've got is maybe his parents emigrate to Britain before he is born or when he's very young. However, they wouldn't be blue-bloods, which means getting Lenin into the officer corps, let alone commanding armies, could be kind of hard.
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
Though Merry's challenge presents another cool idea: what if the Ulyanovy had emigrated to the UK and Little Volodya was raised British.
 
Though Merry's challenge presents another cool idea: what if the Ulyanovy had emigrated to the UK and Little Volodya was raised British.

IIRC Lenin was a writer of some kind before he entered politics.

Maybe Lenin and Churchill are war correspondents in the Boer War?

Lenin was a physical coward OTL, but maybe a different upbringing will man him up a bit.
 

Thande

Donor
IIRC Lenin was a writer of some kind before he entered politics.

Maybe Lenin and Churchill are war correspondents in the Boer War?

That could be interesting. I could see Lenin being one of the journalists who kicked off that scandal against the government by revealing the conditions in the concentration camps and the treatment of Chinese labourers.
 
What would be the point? Even assuming he could possibly rise to similar heights ITTL as a military leader or what have you, it would take enough divergence that he wouldn't be OTL Lenin to any degree. Odds are, he'd be James Francis Lemon or some similar Anglicization, anyway.
 
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