Lenin in 1917 with the internet: how social networks and viral memes would have changed history

Imagine: April 1917. The Finnish railway station, a armored car, the famous speech "There is such a party!" But Vladimir Ilyich does not pronounce it aloud — he writes a post in a Telegram channel. Thousands of workers and soldiers like it, repost "The April Theses" in the public "Windows of ROSTA," and Mensheviks try to ban him for misinformation. Sounds like madness, but let's imagine: what if Lenin had modern internet in 1917? Mobile phones, social networks, viral videos, and recommendation algorithms — how would they change the course of the revolution, the Civil War, and possibly the whole 20th century?

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