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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin also lived in London and it was in London that Lenin and Stalin are believed to have first met and where they met up with fellow Russian Leon Trotsky.
Rather ironic though that as well as being host to many great American figures, London also played host to the seeds of communism (Karl Marx lived in London and is buried at Highgate), the seeds of the cold war, the seeds of the Vietnam War and the seeds of the current War on Terror.
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Great research!
There used to be a statue of Lenin in Islington - as you might imagine, it got vandalised a few times. Now it lives in the Islington Museum:
my pic