August 30, 1918
Three Shots in the Moscow Courtyard
The attempted assassination of Lenin by Fanny Kaplan in Moscow on August 30, 1918
On August 30, 1918, a nearly blind former revolutionary fired three shots outside a Moscow arms factory—and left behind a story less certain than the official verdict. Two hosts follow the chain from the Constituent Assembly to the Red Terror, asking whether Kaplan’s bullet mattered most for the wound it caused or the fear it unleashed.
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