Lenin and Krupskaya Have Children

"Krupskaya is believed to have suffered from Graves' disease,[11] an illness affecting the thyroid gland in the neck which causes the eyes to bulge and the neck to tighten. It can also disrupt the menstrual cycle, which may explain why Lenin and Krupskaya never had children." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Krupskaya

"Lenin sympathised and urged her to undergo a surgical operation to try and eliminate the condition. But she refused, no doubt being aware that the operation was neither guaranteed to succeed nor even very safe." Robert Service, *Lenin: A Biography,*, p. 197. https://books.google.com/books?id=N9mbl_xbWpkC&pg=PA197

Let's say that Krupskaya doesn't get Graves' disease or it is cured. And that they have children in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century--call them Alexander Vladimirovich Ulyanov, Vera Vladimirovna Ulyanova, or whatever? It is tempting to say that Stalin will have them killed, but in OTL none of Lenin's surviving siblings (Dmitry, Anna, Maria) were purged--and Krupskaya, despite being an Oppositionist for a while in the mid-1920's, died a free woman. My guess is that Lenin's children get "honorable" but not powerful jobs (especially connected with libraries, museums, etc. related to their father's memory). None of the Bolshevik leaders will want a Lenin dynasty.

(Technically, this could go in either the pre-1900 or post-1900 section; but even if the children, or some of them, are born in the nineteenth century, most of the consequences will be in the twentieth.)
 
There was already two threads about issue while ago but let's answer shortly. Probably Lenin's children are safe from Stalin's purges but they wouldn't get any high positions. Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders didn't want new czar dynasty when previous was recently overthrown. And even other children of Soviet leaders didn't get notable career so we can assume that Lenin's children neither too.
 
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