Vladimir Ilich Lenin was the main Bolshevik leader of the October Revolution.
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Havana, November 7 (RHC)-- The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel evoked Monday the impact of the so-called October Revolution, the first socialist experience in the world that established a bipolar balance.

On the 105th anniversary of that epic, the president pointed out on his Twitter account that it empowered workers and proved that socialism was possible.

As other achievements of the first workers' and peasants' state in history, Díaz-Canel mentioned the decisive contribution of Soviet troops in the victory against fascism during World War II (1939-1945), and scientific-technical advances such as the first manned flight into space, in 1961.

The bourgeois democratic revolution of 1917, led by the Bolsheviks, succeeded in overthrowing the Tsar of the Russian Empire through popular demonstrations, successive strikes and military uprisings that turned into popular insurrection.

The triumph took place on November 7, 1917, although the country was then governed by the Julian calendar and, according to that almanac, it was October 25.

The Revolution represented great achievements for the working class and for the people, both Russian and of all the nationalities that ended up forming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.