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  • Other suggestions, not linked to specific dams, include the names of assassinated South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani, murdered Black Consciousness activist Steve Biko, Zulu king Shaka, contemporary South African political leaders, Afrikaans writers and communist revolutionaries Mao Zedong and Nikolai Lenin.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Woodrow Wilson and Nikolai Lenin, who, whatever their other gifts, knew the value of rhetoric.

    DEMOCRACY STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD 1968

  • But as far as American journalism is concerned, that pronouncement is not quite correct, because more often than not American journalists began and for an embarrassingly long time continued not with Vladimir or Ilich (as the founding Bolshevik is sometime affectionately called, peasant-fashion by his patronymic) but with Nikolai Lenin.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4 1989

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