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Why did communist leaders use aliases?
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[quote:Halcyon Dayz, FCD:MV83OTg4NzZfMTIyOTY3MjdfRDc5NzQ5Mzg=] To be harder to find and to keep their families from being harassed/taken hostage. [quote:89446] And why do we continue to use them instead of their real names?[/quote] Because they are easier to remember? And these names are unique. They themselves kept using them after the revolution because those were the names the public knew them by. [quote:Anonymous Coward 365611]And I'm sure you also know that both of them took on tough-sounding aliases: Stalin (Man of Steel), Lenin (Man of Iron).[/quote] Incorrect. Volgin and Lenin named themselves after Russian rivers. (Volga and Lena.) Most used common surnames. Stalin was less modest. He had a city named after himself when he was still alive. :book: Search term: [i]Nom de guerre[/i] [/quote]
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And why do we coninue to use them instead of their real names?
Pol Pot's actual name was Saloth Sar or Minh Hai
Stalin's actual name was Iosef Besarionis Jughashvili
Ho Chi Minh's actual name was Nguyen Sinh Cung
Lenin's actual name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Trotsky's acutal name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein
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