ПОЧТА СССР (USSR POST) 1985 / В. И. ЛЕНИН 1870-1924 (V. I. LENIN 1870-1924) / Stamp

The image is a Soviet-era postage stamp with a portrait of Lenin, who was the founder of the Russian Communist Party, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and the first head of the Soviet state1. He was born in 1870 and died in 1924, and his body is preserved in a mausoleum in Moscow. He is considered one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, and his political ideology, known as Leninism, influenced many socialist and communist movements around the world.