I happen to study obscure history, so I can tell you about Lenin. He was a Russian living in exile in Switzerland who wanted to turn Russia communist. The Germans actually sent him to St. Petersburg in a special sealed train in 1917, trying to hurt Russia, but the train crashed on the Switz-Austrian border and Lenin was killed. If he'd actually gotten to Russia, however, the Bolshevicks (Russian communist party) might have actually had a chance to take the czar down. Instead, they spent the next twenty years running a gurellia war out of the Urals.