100 years ago today, on a misty night in Petrograd, a short bald man, Vladimir Il'ich Ulyanov, the Bolshevik leader better known as Lenin, ordered a blank shot fired from the cruiser Aurora to signal the beginning of a process that changed Russia and the world forever.
Here's a brief excerpt from the celebrations held in the evening of november, tuesday 7th in Leningrad/Saint Petersburg , next to the pier where the Aurora is moored nowadays, with the "The Internationale (Интернационал)" hymn resounding.
